Emergency helicopter innovations extending lifeline to those in peril

Emergency helicopters have become the go-to mode of transport in disaster and accident response situations for municipalities in Japan, with their effectiveness increasingly being augmented by innovative services and products offered by private companies.In the space of 22 years, Japan went from having no emergency helicopters to 56, with Okayama Prefecture the first to operate one in 2001, according to the Emergency Medical Network of Helicopter and Hospital, known as HEM-Net.The need for emergency helicopters became widely recognized after the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995, which claim…READ FULL ARTICLE