Switzerland wants to take in up to 20 seriously injured people from Ukraine every month. (picture icon)
So far, six ambulance flights have been carried out with 18 patients, the conference of cantonal health directors (GdK) announced on Thursday. At the request of Ukraine, Switzerland has been admitting injured civilians from the country at war with Russia for acute hospital treatment since September.
The child recently transported to Switzerland is an eight-year-old with severe burns. The child flew to Switzerland with his mother. The transport in a helicopter of the Swiss air rescue service Rega took place from an airport in Poland. The admission of a second, seriously ill child is currently being initiated, the GdK further announced.
(SDA)