News release

Helicopter Performs
First Medivac from Tancook Island

Health (to Jan. 2011)

HEALTH--Helicopter Performs First Medivac from Tancook Island


Nova Scotia's air ambulance helicopter performed its first medivac from Tancook Island on Tuesday, flying an 89-year-old man to the QEII Health Sciences Centre in Halifax.

The Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society (STARS) helicopter was dispatched at 4:30 p.m. It took off at 4:40 and landed 16 minutes later on a field behind the community centre on the island, near Chester.

The air medical flight crew stabilized the patient and took off shortly before 6 p.m. The aircraft landed at the South Battery helipad on the Halifax waterfront where an ambulance was waiting to take the patient to hospital.

The STARS helicopter is part of the Department of Health's Emergency Health Services Air Medical Transport Program.