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Air Ambulance Costs

Africa

Our Africa air ambulance services are here to transport you back to the UK or to any other destination around the world in safety and comfort.

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Guide prices

  • Egypt £30,500
  • Nigeria £47,000
  • South Africa £75,000
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Why are these only guide prices?

The exact amount you’ll pay for an air ambulance from Africa depends on a number of factors, including:

  • The type and size of aircraft used
  • The number of medics required
  • Your destination, and the distance flown
  • The airport landing fees
  • The distance that ground ambulances need to cover
  • The number of additional people accompanying the patient
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Where we fly from

We operate across many areas of Africa, including:

What does it include?

Our bed-to-bed Africa air ambulance services are designed to take care of everything on your behalf, providing peace of mind to both you and your loved ones.

Book our air ambulance service and you’ll receive the following as standard:

  • Collecting the patient from their hospital ward in Africa.
  • Getting the patient’s medical notes together, and translating them if needed.
  • Arranging for the patient to be transferred by ground ambulance to our fully equipped medical aircraft.
  • Providing highly trained medics to accompany the patient to their destination.
  • Organising the patient’s admission to an NHS or private hospital in the destination country.
  • Transporting the patient from the aircraft to the destination hospital by ground ambulance.

Our air ambulance aircrafts

We’ll fully evaluate your medical condition before making any decision on the type of aircraft to use for your medical transportation. We will use one of the following aircrafts depending on your needs:

Can Companions Fly on the Air Ambulance too?

A question that is often asked by family members is, “Can I fly on the Air Ambulance too?” The answer, under normal circumstances, is “Yes”!

All IAS Medical air ambulances have the capacity to comfortably carry one companion with the patient.

However, IAS Medical recommends that critical ill patients travel alone to avoid worry and distress for the companion.

The decision to carry a companion is one that rests with our Medical Director and depends on the medical condition of the patient.

How Quickly can you Respond?

IAS Medical has a wide range of air ambulances and ground ambulances located throughout the UK and Internationally.

Our pilots and medics are on-call 24 hours a day and for urgent repatriation cases we can organise same day repatriation flights.

IAS Medical are able to respond extremely quickly to move NHS transplant teams and are on stand-by around the clock to deploy an aircraft in as little as 45 minutes.

What is the Aircraft Luggage Allowance?

IAS Medical take pride in the high standards we set for patient care.

The air ambulance aircraft we use are fitted with complete medical stretcher systems that incorporate medical oxygen, suction and electrical power outlets for medical equipment.

Therefore, space on board the aircraft is limited and it is recommended that luggage is restricted to one piece of hand luggage per person weighing not more than 15 kgs.

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Overview

If you need to arrange medical transport, the last thing you should be worrying about is money, so here at IAS Medical we offer all-inclusive prices to help you understand exactly what to expect. The cost of an air ambulance will depend on your individual circumstances, with prices depending on the following factors:

  • The patient’s location and the distance they need to travel
  • The type of aircraft needed
  • The number of medical staff required
  • The airport landing fees
  • The journey required by ground ambulance

The cost of medical crew

The overall cost of booking an air ambulance depends on various factors, including the number of medical staff required and the expertise needed to support the patient’s medical needs.

As an indication of how this affects the overall cost of an air ambulance, the cost of recruiting medical experts is as follows:

  • Flight Surgeons: £700 per day
  • Doctors: £700 per day
  • Nurses: £350 per day
  • Paramedics: £350 per day

The cost of our aircraft

Prices will depend on the type of aircraft you need to book, according to the clinical needs of the patient, the size of aircraft required and the equipment needed on board. Prices will also vary depending on how many people would like to accompany the patient on their journey, although this may not be possible depending on the patient’s medical condition.

For non-serious cases, there is often a choice of aircraft, in which case we will use the most cost-effective aircraft available.

The cost of airport landing fees

All airports charge landing and aircraft handling fees, which will impact on the overall cost of your medical transport. There may also be extension fees to keep the airport open, as well as aircraft de-icing fees.

We provide air ambulances from major airports right across the world, so we can get as close as possible to the patient’s hospital ward. We then use an RAF airport for flights into London, which helps to keep air ambulance costs as manageable as possible.

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