The following article was cleared for publication following peer review and upon the Editor-in-Chief's decision. The manuscript is an addition to the global health literature. The manuscript reads uneven in the current English version, but the topic and concepts presented are of global interest and add to the disaster planning, response, and recovery knowledge base.
Crisis situations (CS) are, unfortunately, happening in present days in each world side. And in this case, medical evacuation (ME) becomes necessary to save human lives. The presented study is regarding the description and analysis of the phases, peculiarities, and perspectives of ME organization and development. The study characterized the inter-sectoral method of the planning, and realization of crisis outcomes liquidation is provided. Four main ways of the realization of approaches that could guarantee the development of the ME system were found. Also has been identified the number of main problems which the ME system faces. Among them are lack of personnel/equipment in the medical crews; high time of transportation; the noise pollution and vibration in time of evacuation by air; the infection and exposure risk of the evacuation aircrews in the places of mass destruction weapons usage; the organizational and legislative problems of the foreign citizens’ evacuation; and ME of the persons from the oil and gas production places.
Keywords: crisis situation; medical evacuation; medical-sanitary aftereffects; organization; transportation.