Taiwan patient takes direct flight home
By Zhan Lisheng (China Daily)
Updated: 2006-09-15 08:24
The two firms launched a cross-Straits emergency medical rescue service in
June, shortly after the mainland's Cross-Straits Aviation Transport Exchange
Council and the Taipei Airlines Association signed an agreement on the expansion
of cross-Straits air services on June 14.
The agreement allows chartered flights for medical emergencies and where
first aid is needed for the handicapped. Provision was also made for direct
cargo flights carrying special equipment for Taiwan factories on the mainland on
a case-by-case basis.
The first direct cargo charter flight landed in Shanghai in July, carrying
equipment for a Taiwanese-invested chip factory there.
International SOS said it was preparing for a second charter flight for the
emergency medical rescue of a dozen Taiwan tourists who were injured in a bus
crash in Wangqing, near Yanbian in Northeast China's Jilin Province, on Monday.
"An Air China or Taiwan airliner will be used for the flight, that flight
will probably take off in a week," He said. "We have to wait until the injured
are in a stable condition."
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