Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

New medical helicopter in Jalisco already saving lives in Puerto Vallarta

The medical helicopter of the Emergency Medical Attention System (SAMU) handed over to the Jalisco Health Secretariat (SSJ) last Saturday, made its first airlift this week to move an organ between the Guadalajara International Airport and the San Javier Hospital.

In a statement, the government of Jalisco said that on Wednesday morning a liver from Chihuahua was taken to the facilities of the private hospital to be transplanted, compared to a ground transfer the time savings was 52 minutes. This was the first transfer in the SAMU helicopter in Jalisco that supports the State Council of Transplants of Organs and . . .

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