SOMA Health provides a dedicated and complete, Medical Retrieval Service throughout Australia and the Asia- Pacific region. This serviceprovides a total solution that may range from provision of flight nursestaffing for retrieval of overseas patients, to the provision of fullymedically assisted and flight nurse assisted, aircraft and air crew, forretrieval and evacuation.

Our services also extend to providing on-call coverage forAustralian and overseas events including work operations sites such as miningand off-shore rigs.

Our staff include Emergency and Intensive Care Medical Specialists,and specialist trained ICU and Emergency Flight Nurses.

Together with a select group of aviation partners, Soma health isable to provide patient retrieval services in aircraft ranging from the B200King Air to Lifeport equipped Lear Jet and Hawker Beachcraft aircraft forlonger range and international missions.

Soma has developed close working relationships directly with theowners of each of these aircraft ensuring that there is full accountabilityfrom a quality and safety standpoint and eliminating the additional cost andliability of the broker network.

With our range of industry contacts, Soma is able to offer missionflexibility ranging from intrastate repatriation to 2,500 mile internationalretrievals. Typical non-stop international destinations from the Australianmainland include;

• New Zealand,
  
• Bali
  
• Singapore
  
• Malaysia
  
• Noumea
  
• Philippines and
  
• Fiji
  

Most other South East Asian and South Pacific locations can bereached in one to two stops depending on weather.

Soma health is able to support recovery ofdecompression accidents associated with diving injuries with a sea levelcabin provided at up to 25,000 feet of flying altitude.