DUBAI 7 September 2018: Dubai sent a helicopter to Oman to airlift an injured resident who wanted to be treated in Dubai.
Dubai Air Wing transported the patient to Dubai’s Rashid Hospital.
The man was injured while traveling with his family in the Sultanate of Oman. He sent a request to the Operations Room of the Dubai Police to complete his treatment in his home country.
Lieutenant Colonel Ali Mohammed Al Muhairi, Director of the Air Wing Center, said the injured person was a Dubai police employee who was on vacation in Oman and that he was in a traffic accident.
“After receiving a request from his family to take him to Dubai to complete his treatment, an air rescue helicopter from Dubai Air Wing Center flown by 1st lieutenant trainer Abdullah Khamis Al Shaer, a doctor and nurses from Dubai Ambulance Foundation, were sent. We moved to the Kizid border crossing to take the injured from the ambulance of Nizwa Hospital to the Emirate of Dubai,” he explained.
Al Muhairi stressed that the Dubai Police and its staff at the Air Wing Center are keen to perform their duties in serving community members wherever they are, and to strengthen the partnership with the authorities inside and outside the UAE and to embody the values and principles that underpinned the new corporate identity of Dubai Police.