BEIJING, July 12 — The Y-9 medical plane, often known as the primary “flying hospital” of the PLA, has lately grow to be a trending subject on China’s social media platform Weibo.
The Y-9 medical plane, renovated from the Y-9 navy transport plane, is used to evacuate sufferers on the battlefield. Nicely geared up to carry out en-route analysis, remedy and small surgical operations, it’s actually a cellular hospital within the air.
The affected person zone onboard is split into two elements – common casualty space and ICU. The airplane can carry greater than 30 sufferers to the rear hospital by one flight.
Each stretcher within the common casualty space could be taken down for subject operation, thus transferring the sufferers to the vacation spot extra conveniently. They’re all fitted with an ECG monitor, respiratory machine, infusion pump and vacuum extractor, all of which could be shortly put in and dismantled.
The ICU part is absolutely geared up to hold out infusion, blood transfusion and essential surgical treatment, and has an impartial oxygen provide system, in order to make sure the sufferers’ security whereas on the best way.
That includes superior applied sciences and the total vary of services, the Y-9 medical plane strikes quicker and is extra able to analysis and remedy than the MEDEVAC helicopter, largely bettering the PLA’s functionality of performing varied logistic help duties.
It’s realized that the plane has evacuated a number of severely injured sufferers from Xinjiang, Tibet, and Qinghai to rear hospitals because it was commissioned, saving valuable time for the injured.