ANOTHER MISSION WHERE MINUTES MATTER - PREGNANT WOMAN TRANSPORTED FROM TREBINJE TO BANJA LUKA

BANJA LUKA, November 16 /SRNA/ - Members of the Aviation Administration of the Ministry of the Interior /MUP/ of Republika Srpska today carried out another mission in which every minute counts, with one goal above all - providing help to those who need it most.

A 22-year-old pregnant woman, Dž.M., in her 24th week of pregnancy, was urgently transported from the Trebinje General Hospital to the University Clinical Centre of Republika Srpska in Banja Luka, to the Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics.

This was the 97th medical air evacuation carried out this year alone. But this number is not merely a statistic - it represents 97 individual human stories, 97 patients and families who were given an additional chance.

With this mission, all previous yearly records have already been surpassed, even though a month and a half remains until the end of the calendar year.

Based on this year’s statistics, on average one patient is transported to a higher level of medical care every three days, thanks to the work of the flight crews and medical personnel.

It is particularly significant that the majority of evacuations continue to take place in Herzegovina, a region where difficult terrain and long distances make time the greatest adversary.

This is precisely where the importance of the "golden hour" is most visible - the critical period in which even the most at-risk patients have a chance to survive, provided that help arrives quickly enough.

"Our pilots and medical teams work under immense time pressure, fully aware that every takeoff represents hope for our patients and their families. The Aviation Administration of the MUP of Republika Srpska, as the successor of the tradition of the Helicopter Service of Srpska, remains fully committed to its mission - to serve all citizens when they need us most," Boban Kusturić, Head of the Aviation Administration, told SRNA.

These missions, although technically demanding, carry a simple and profound message: that the true value of this humanitarian work can be measured in only one way - by the lives that continue because of it.