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Global Rescue has performed missions all over the world. We have distinguished ourselves by doing things other companies either won’t or can’t. By providing critical information and boots-on-the-ground capabilities, we dramatically improve the likelihood of good outcomes for our members, regardless of the challenges they face. We have performed rescue, evacuation, medical and security missions in war zones in the Middle East, on the highest peaks of the Himalaya, and in the deserts and jungles of South America and Africa. In fact, we are the only company we know of to offer rescue services from the field to the home hospital of choice. We are also the only company to have a partnership with Johns Hopkins Medicine, ranked #1 in the U.S. since 1990. This special relationship provides our members with unparalleled consultative resources and an international network of the world’s finest hospitals that offer local care when needed. Our operations personnel are the finest available and many have military special operations backgrounds and decades of experience performing missions in difficult environments.
What does this mean for you? It means that when called upon, we focus our extensive resources with the utmost intensity to solve your problems and do not stop until they are resolved. Throughout every mission, we treat our members as we would want our own families to be treated. Our commitment is to provide the world’s finest crisis response services. If you decide to join our family as a member or client, we’ll be there when it matters most.
Daniel L. Richards
Chief Executive Officer
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H ON G K ON G C H INA background
Challenges
A corporate client’s employee contracted a communicable disease while traveling for business in Hong Kong.
•R are, life-threatening contagious disease
Mission Summary
•U nknown extent of contact with colleagues •C oordinating and reporting through government organizations
Global Rescue received a call from a corporate client regarding an employee that was hospitalized in Hong Kong. Global Rescue immediately dispatched a paramedic as an on-site case manager. With • Q uarantine and a paramedic at the patient’s side, Global Rescue successfully moved the government regulations patient to a second hospital that was better equipped to deal with such regarding transport a serious disease. While the Operations Center acted as an information hub for the client, the hospital, the Centers for Disease Control and the client’s primary care physician, Global Rescue’s paramedic ensured that the patient received the best stabilizing treatment possible. Complicated medical diagnosis and treatment recommendations were translated for the client and the patient’s immediate family who had arrived in Hong Kong. After approximately ten days of treatment, the patient was no longer contagious and was stable for transport to his home hospital. Global Rescue’s on-site paramedic escorted the patient back to the United States and turned treatment over to the patient’s primary care physician at the patient’s home The hospital in hong kong hospital of choice.
OUTCOME The patient was successfully escorted to his home hospital where he received further treatment and physical therapy. Global Rescue maintained regular communications with the patient’s family in order to ensure proper care was provided for a successful outcome.
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BOUR G S T MAURI C E F R ANCE background
Challenges
While competing in the French Alps, a U.S. Ski Team athlete crashed and shattered her pelvis. As the official medical evacuation provider for the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Teams, Global Rescue was contacted to stabilize and evacuate the patient.
• Language barriers • A ircraft configuration restrictions • S ubstandard medical treatment
Mission Summary The patient was taken from the slopes by ambulance to a local hospital for stabilization and x-rays. Global Rescue led conference calls with the Team’s medical director, the onsite attending physician and Global Rescue’s medical personnel to determine the best course of action. The x-rays showed multiple fractures to the skier’s pelvis that would require complicated surgery to repair. Global Rescue deployed an operations paramedic to serve as a bedside medical oversight and act as a liaison for the patient and her family during her hospital stay. Upon arrival, Global Rescue’s paramedic found the local hospital to be antiquated and ill-equipped to handle the patient’s needs. The patient was not receiving pain medication, nor was she catheterized, which is the standard of care in the U.S. for fractures of this nature. Global Rescue’s paramedic immediately intervened to ensure prompt delivery of pain management medications and other critical services. With Global Rescue’s paramedic at her side, she was flown from France to Colorado and brought immediately to her home hospital in Denver for surgery. During the trip, the status of the flight was tracked at the Global Rescue Operations Center and constant updates sent to her coaches and family.
a Member of the U.S. Ski team competing in an alpine event
OUTCOME By deploying a paramedic to the patient’s bed- The Athletes of the U.S. Ski Team side, Global Rescue was able to provide critical medical care to the patient. The risk of additional injury or permanent damage was avoided and she was able to have her surgery at her home hospital in Denver, where she has made a full recovery.
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BEIRU T LEBANON Background
Challenges
Beginning on July 12, 2006, air strikes and artillery fire heavily damaged Lebanese civilian infrastructure, including Rafik Hariri International Airport. Hezbollah aggression, the Israeli military’s response, and a lack of evacuation options created a dangerous environment where many Americans were trapped. During the initial phases of the war, it was unclear how the U.S. government intended to evacuate U.S. citizens from the country. Several Fortune 500 companies tasked Global Rescue to locate and evacuate more than a dozen employees scattered throughout Lebanon.
•O perating in an active war zone
Mission Summary
• L ocating Americans scattered throughout Lebanon •P ositively identifying employees with limited or no communication •N avigating vehicles through heavily damaged roads •O perating without air assets within Lebanese borders due to overflight restrictions
Global Rescue immediately assembled on-site operations teams composed of special operations and indigenous military personnel. These teams collected descriptions, pictures, identifying marks, and last known locations of the employees and commenced operations. Indigenous military personnel were able to successfully guide operations teams to employee locations despite heavily damaged roads. After locating and positively identifying each employee, operations teams transported them to a central rally point in Beirut. While Global Rescue conducted search and rescue operations, arrangements were made for transport by sea to Cyprus. Concerns over the Israeli blockade of Lebanon’s seaports led to the implementation of contingency plans, which involved ground transportation to neighboring countries. Vehicles, security, air assets, border clearance, and accommodations were all arranged. Global Rescue operators provided evacuation of company personnel by sea and air to Cyprus. Global Rescue’s success depended on the ability to proactively respond in a highly volatile environment.
OUTCOME Successful evacuation of 23 employees in harm’s way from an active war zone.
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D H AULI G IRI NE P AL background
Challenges
Mt. Dhauligiri, the world’s seventh-highest peak, is widely considered to be an even more challenging climb than Everest. Its precipitous slopes of ice and crevasses have resulted in numerous fatalities since the mountain was first climbed in 1960. A member of an Argentine expedition filming a documentary was last seen departing from the high camp below the summit. His climbing partner contacted Global Rescue when the missing climber failed to return to camp 24 hours later.
•A irspace closure over Everest, weather conditions
Mission Summary In coordination with indigenous resources in Nepal, Global Rescue launched a Sherpa-led team to try to locate the lost climber near the summit. Global Rescue rescued and airlifted the climbing partner from the mountain and treated him for severe frost bite after he spent the night in an open bivouac and sent a search and rescue team to lead the effort on-site and to coordinate logistics with the family. Search efforts were hampered by bad weather from the approaching monsoon season and by airspace closure over the area due to the ascent of the Olympic torch on nearby Mt. Everest. Despite 10 days of intensive search efforts and the recovery of most of the missing climber’s equipment, Global Rescue was unable to locate him. The search was finally called off. It is suspected that the lost climber fell down one of the peak’s numerous ice falls or possibly into a crevasse.
•E xtreme altitude and dangerous terrain • L ack of information regarding the climber’s location
the rescue helicopter arriving on mt. dhauligiri
OUTCOME Rescue teams successfully located and evacuated the climbing partner from the mountain, but tragically could not locate the lost climber. Global Rescue retrieved many of the lost climber’s belongings, including a final note from his friends, and brought them down off the mountain for his family.
one of the camps along the ascent
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C OL C A C ANYON P ERU Challenges
Background Located in the foothills of the Peruvian Andes, the Colca Canyon has been described by National Geographic Adventure Magazine as “the world’s deepest canyon... where frequent unpassable stages require brutal portages, and where canyon walls rise to heights of 12,000 feet, leaving no possibility of hiking out.” While traversing a narrow trail at 8,500 feet, a member of a hiking party lost his footing and tumbled 50 feet down a steep slope into the canyon. The expedition’s medical officer observed lacerations and other injuries to his hands, arms, head and thorax and determined the injured hiker needed to be evacuated for further treatment and evaluation.
• Extremely remote location • High altitude •R ough terrain and limited area for landing aircraft
Mission Summary Within twenty minutes of receiving the call, Global Rescue activated assets in the region that included both American and Peruvian fixed and rotor-wing aircraft. Global Rescue operators then instructed the hiking party to build a signal fire and to identify a landing zone to accommodate the helicopter. Global Rescue also had a team prepped and ready to perform a ground rescue if the helicopter wasn’t able to land, which is frequently the case in very rough terrain. The helicopter successfully identified the party’s signal fire and evacuated the injured hiker. Once the patient was extracted, Global Rescue had a medically configured turboprop airplane rendezvous with the helicopter at the nearest available airstrip. From this remote airstrip, the patient was flown to Lima where his wounds were cleaned and bandaged prior to his evacuation to the United States.
The rugged terrain of the colca canyon, Peru
OUTCOME Successful field rescue and evacuation of the injured hiker despite high altitudes and rough terrain.
the Colca Canyon party descending into the canyon
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B R ID G ETOWN BARBADOS background
Challenges
While swimming in the ocean near Barbados during a break from her studies, a college student contracted a virus from contaminated water that quickly spread to her nervous system. Paraplegia occurred less than one hour after the onset of the first symptoms of the viral infection. After seeking medical attention on the island, Global Rescue was tasked by the student’s college to transport her to her home hospital in Burlington, Vermont.
•R apid spread of viral infection •C ontrolling spinal cord swelling during flight
Mission Summary Global Rescue dispatched a private medevac jet with a flight paramedic and nurse on board to transport the patient, her mother and grandmother back to Vermont. While flight crews were prepping the aircraft for departure, Global Rescue contacted both the attending and receiving neurosurgeons to ensure administration of proper preflight medications to help mitigate the stresses of flight and reduce spinal cord swelling. Additional swelling resulting from flight could have made her condition worse and caused further neurological damage. The progress of the flight was monitored from Global Rescue’s Boston Operations Center utilizing FAA flight tracking technology to accurately estimate the time of arrival. Upon arrival in Burlington, the patient was taken in a waiting ambulance to the hospital.
interior of a Medically equipped Aircraft
OUTCOME Successful transport of the patient and family members to the hospital of their choice. The member contracted the viral infection while swimming in contaminated ocean water around barbados
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DO H A Q A T AR background
Challenges
While a Global Rescue member was working abroad in Qatar, his infant was diagnosed with a rare and life-threatening disease that could not be treated effectively at the local hospitals. The member requested that the infant be transported to a U.S. hospital specializing in the treatment of neonatal cases.
•E xtended flight duration: Middle East to U.S.
Mission Summary
•E xtreme weather conditions • L anguage barriers among doctors • A ge of patient
After talking to an assistance company retained by the father’s employer and being refused transport to the family’s hospital of choice in the U.S., the family contacted Global Rescue who immediately deployed assets to the member’s location. Global Rescue facilitated communication with full translation services among doctors at the Qatari hospital, Global Rescue, and specialists from the receiving hospital to discuss treatment options. Global Rescue then deployed a specialized neonatal transport team to the patient’s bedside. Within hours of arriving, Global Rescue personnel and the member’s family departed via medically arranged commercial air transport for the United States. Despite winter weather advisories, the transport was able to reach its intended destination in the U.S. where a police escort expedited the hospital in doha transport from the airport to the hospital. Throughout the entirety of the mission, situation reports that included updates on the patient’s condition were issued by Global Rescue personnel to medical staff and the patient’s family to ensure readiness to receive the patient upon her arrival.
• Rarity of disease
OUTCOME The successful evacuation of the Global Rescue member’s baby and family with full medical escort via commercial aircraft.
the skyline of Doha, qatar
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FLO R ENCE I T ALY background
Challenges
While traveling in Florence, Italy, a Global Rescue member was involved in a low-speed bicycle accident. A helmet prevented critical head injuries and the member was able to continue riding for the rest of the day despite what he perceived to be minor injuries.
• Language barriers
Mission Summary
• Member refuses transport
After visiting an Italian hospital, x-rays revealed a fractured wrist and several fractured ribs. The Italian physicians recommended immediate surgery. The member contacted the Global Rescue Boston Operations Center for medical information, guidance and further assistance. After taking a detailed history of the accident, Global Rescue obtained digitized versions of the x-rays from the Italian hospital for evaluation. Global Rescue and Johns Hopkins orthopedists reviewed the x-rays and determined that surgery was not immediately necessary but that the patient should return to the U.S. for treatment. If the injury was casted and he abstained from vigorous activity, he would be able to continue with his vacation as planned and delay his surgery until he returned to the U.S. Despite Global Rescue’s recommendation to transport the member home immediately, he declined in order to continue with his vacation. To alleviate the member’s stress and reduce the risk of further aggravating his injuries, Global Rescue arranged for the member’s baggage to be shipped back to his home in the U.S. Global Rescue continued to monitor the member’s condition throughout the remainder of his vacation.
• L ocal physicians’ refusal to discuss the member’s case
The bridges of florence at sunset
OUTCOME Global Rescue successfully provided medical information for a member traveling in Italy. As a result, the member was able to continue his vacation as planned.
Digitized x-rays of the injured ribs (left) and wrist
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YU K ON C ANADA background
Challenges
While on a hunting trip deep in Canada’s Yukon Territory, a Global Rescue member suffered symptoms indicative of a potentially life threatening blood clot in his leg. The member, a physician himself, contacted Global Rescue via satellite phone to request that Global Rescue deliver medication that would prevent the clot from becoming worse.
• Extremely remote location •P rescribing medication across borders •R ough terrain and limited area for landing aircraft
Mission Summary Global Rescue immediately put assets on alert to evacuate the member, if requested. Rotary and fixed-wing aircraft specially designed for short takeoffs and landings on improvised runways were placed on standby. The member, not wanting to interrupt his trip, requested an aerial delivery of the medication rather than an evacuation. Global Rescue facilitated telephone conferences among Global Rescue physicians, the member’s home physician, and Canadian physicians to discuss the best method of treatment. Because regulations prevent doctors from prescribing medications across borders, Global Rescue utilized its Canadian resources to identify a doctor who could prescribe the medication locally. After filling the prescription, the medication and supplies were hand-couriered at first light via fixed-wing aircraft. The bush plane landed on a small dirt landing strip supported by a sandbar approximately 100 yards from the member’s location less than 24-hours from first contact with the member.
the remote landscape of the yukon Territory
OUTCOME Global Rescue successfully delivered critical medical supplies to a remote location. The medication was administered in the field and the potentially fatal blood clot was properly managed before it caused additional harm.
Bush planes are specialized for short take offs and landing on improvised runways
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T BILISI G EOR G IA background
Challenges
In 2008, Russian forces invaded the Republic of Georgia and conducted air strikes on targets around its capital, Tbilisi, after Georgia attempted to regain control of breakaway province South Ossetia. As the Russian tanks rolled in, and bombs began to fall on the capital, an American whose family was in Tbilisi asked Global Rescue to extract her mother and bring her to safety in the United States.
• Russian invasion • Proximity to airstrikes • B order guards and military blockades
Mission Summary Global Rescue immediately activated its assets in Georgia and coordinated the client’s rescue from a location outside Tbilisi, near the targets of the airstrikes. After a secure route was arranged with military and government officials, Global Rescue’s local, Georgian-speaking security professionals found the woman, ushered her through military checkpoints and border crossings and escorted her to a secure location in Armenia. In the meantime, Global Rescue deployed a team composed of former special operations personnel to Armenia to provide operational guidance and command for Global Rescue’s local Georgian security personnel. The combined team coordinated the safe transfer of the woman to Armenia and within 24 hours a special visa was obtained and the woman was evacuated to the U.S.
a russian soldier at a check point
OUTCOME Global Rescue successfully extracted and evacuated a woman trapped by a bombing campaign that started with little warning. She was escorted safely from her home in Georgia to the airport in Texas where she was met by her family. the outskirts of tbilisi
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MUMBAI INDIA background
Challenges
In 2008, terrorists attacked the Taj Mahal Hotel and other targets in Mumbai, India, killing more than 170 people and wounding countless others. A number of Global Rescue’s clients’ employees were in the city and needed to be located and evacuated to safety.
•M ultiple terrorist cells targeting civilians
Mission Summary
• G unfire and active fighting •U nknown number and location of members • Chaotic environment
Global Rescue immediately confirmed the identity and locations of the members at risk and activated local security and medical assets. Global Rescue operations personnel, in coordination with indigenous Global Rescue security teams, located each member. One of them, a newspaper correspondent, was in the basement of the Taj Mahal Hotel during the attacks. Global Rescue security teams surveyed the troubled area, planned for multiple ground and air escape routes and extracted members out of the city and country in just seven hours from the time of initial notification. The employees were taken to an airport and flown to safety in Singapore. The Taj Mahal Hotel before the terrorist attack
OUTCOME Global Rescue successfully identified the employees of corporate clients impacted by the crisis, provided security teams to extract the members and coordinated the efforts to find a safe means of evacuation to a safe location. The employees were safely evacuated from the country while the attacks in Mumbai were ongoing.
The hotel under attack
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ADDIS ABABA E T H IO P IA background
Challenges
While on a hunting trip in the highlands of Ethiopia, a Global Rescue member suffered a stroke and needed immediate assistance.
• Language barriers • Chaotic environment • S carcity of suitable hospitals in region
Mission Summary The Global Rescue member was hunting in a mountainous region at an elevation of 10,500 feet when his professional hunting guide noticed the member’s slurred speech. The member exhibited other signs of an altered mental state with decreased motor function in one side of his body – symptoms that are classic indicators of stroke. Realizing the severity of his client’s condition, the professional hunter called Global Rescue and drove him to the nearest medical facility; a poorly equipped clinic in Addis Ababa. Global Rescue immediately dispatched an air ambulance to the clinic in Addis Ababa, which evacuated him and his hunting party to the best neurological facility in Nairobi, Kenya. There he was met by a deployed Global Rescue paramedic and treated and monitored by a U.S. trained neurosurgeon.
OUTCOME
the Patient’s x-rays at nairobi hospital
After viewing the CT scans, Global Rescue doctors cleared the member for air travel and he was medically evacuated back to the United States. Further damage or death was avoided by closely monitoring the patient’s condition and evacuating him to the U.S.
the outskirts of nairobi
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BRE C K INRID G E C OLORADO background
Challenges
An 18-year-old ski academy student was free skiing after a race at Breckenridge Resort when he fell and broke his leg. He was taken down on a toboggan and transported via ambulance to the local Colorado hospital, where the doctors announced he would need immediate surgery. His mother, at home in New England, was concerned about the quality of the care at the small hospital, the accuracy of the diagnosis and his eventual transport home. She called Global Rescue.
•V etting of a local care facility •O rganizing three teams of physicians to evaluate the case
Mission Summary Global Rescue first assured the skier’s mother that the hospital had a highly experienced orthopedic team and that Global Rescue’s doctors and specialists at Johns Hopkins Medicine had reviewed the x-rays and concurred with the local physicians that surgery should be performed immediately to avoid the possibility of Compartment Syndrome. Global Rescue dispatched a paramedic to the hospital to assist in the member’s recovery and eventual evacuation to New England. The Global Rescue Operations Center kept the parents informed of the details of the surgery and the decisions being made regarding evacuation. The member’s surgery was extremely successful. Once the surgeon and Global Rescue’s physicians cleared the member for transport, Global Rescue’s deployed paramedic coordinated the shipment of the member’s ski equipment and ensured all necessary medical equipment and medications were available for the evacuation. Global Rescue then provided medical transport for the member back to his home in New England.
OUTCOME an X-ray of the fracture
The skier made it home safely, and has made a full recovery.
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MANAMA BA H RAIN background
Challenges
An employee of a large technology company suffered a heart attack while on assignment in Bahrain. He had experienced chest pain and was taken to the hospital by an ambulance, where he suffered sudden cardiac arrest and was defibrillated. However, the facility was not equipped to perform an angioplasty, so his employer notified Global Rescue.
• Cultural obstacles • P otentially fatal patient
condition • Inadequate local facilities
Mission Summary Global Rescue immediately dispatched a paramedic to Bahrain. The member was originally taken to a substandard facility incapable of dealing with the cardiac case. Upon transfer to a qualified hospital, the member was refused admittance because of his ethnicity. Global Rescue’s deployed paramedic worked with the hospital to ensure the member could remain at the approved facility and obtain the necessary care. Global Rescue established communications links among the attending cardiac surgeon, Global Rescue and Johns Hopkins physicians, the member’s cardiologists and the member to discuss surgical options. Consistent with the opinions of all physicians, the member opted to have angioplasty performed in Bahrain. By doing so, the medical team could rule out the existence of a substantial blockage that might result in significant medical complications or death during his flight back to Texas. Following the procedure and clearance from the Global Rescue and Johns Hopkins physicians, the member was discharged and transported with medical escort back to his home in Texas for further treatment.
Angioplasty results immediately faxed to Johns Hopkins specialists
OUTCOME Global Rescue’s Operations Center kept the employer continuously updated about the patient’s status, providing accurate information and empowering the company’s leadership with the detail needed to make appropriate business and human resource related decisions. The member arrived home safely.
Constant monitoring of vitals is a necessity
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Mentawai Indonesia Challenges
Background Global Rescue was selected by Red Bull Surfing to provide deployed medical support and medical evacuation assistance over a two-week period for its elite and pro-surfer athletes on board a boat traveling to various locations off the shores of Sumatra, Indonesia.
•R emote Indian Ocean location • Limited resources at sea • D angerous activities
Mission Summary Global Rescue deployed a paramedic with a background in surfing and with an understanding of surfing injuries to accompany the Red Bull athletes throughout the trip. Almost daily, surfers received a variety of injuries that required medical treatment. Global Rescue provided emergency care and routine monitoring of these injuries enabling the athletes (who were under time constraints to complete their photo shoots and training) to return to the water expeditiously. Throughout the trip, Global Rescue maintained aeromedical evacuation assets in the region on alert to provide evacuation to a Global Rescue Center of Excellence in the region.
Photo courtesy of Augustin Munoz / Red Bull Photofiles A Red Bull surfer enters the pipe
OUTCOME Under the direction of Global Rescue’s medical staff, Global Rescue’s deployed paramedic treated significant head and skin lacerations, orthopedic injuries, and enabled all injured Red Bull surfers to return to the water under appropriate supervision and guidance to complete their training.
Injured athletes after receiving treatment
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G UAYA Q UIL E C UADOR Challenges
background While on vacation near the Galapagos Islands with her family and friends, an individual suffered a fatal medical event. Global Rescue was tasked with the repatriation of the family and the mortal remains from Ecuador to Baltimore, Maryland.
• Volcanic eruption • S hifting winds; ash plume •T raumatic psychological event for the family
Mission Summary Once tasked with the mission, Global Rescue immediately dispatched a medical specialist trained in traumatic incident response to escort the family. Shortly after takeoff, Mt. Tungurahua, an active volcano near the destination airfield, erupted. All commercial air traffic was diverted from Ecuador. Global Rescue actively monitored the direction and composition of the ash plume and was able to successfully identify an opening through which to land the aircraft in Guayaquil. It was critical to minimize the time the aircraft was on the ground as the ash plume continued to shift with the wind and threatened the aircraft’s ability to depart. By efficiently coordinating logistics with the U.S. Embassy, the Ecuadorian government and the medical examiner’s office, the aircraft spent less than one hour on the ground and was able to depart unimpeded.
gulfstream iii aircraft are ideal for long distance medical transports
OUTCOME Global Rescue successfully completed the repatriation of the entire group on the same day the remains were released from the medical examiner’s office, despite the eruption.
Moments before the eruption of MT. Tungurahua, plumes of smoke are seen billowing from the peak
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Why do you need Global Rescue?
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very year, nearly half of all international travelers report a medical problem and 1 in 30 is hospitalized. Thousands will require medical evacuation costing more than $100,000 not covered by health or travel insurance. Corporations are regularly exposed to significant liability when their employees do not receive adequate medical care abroad. Protect yourself, your family and your organization with a Global Rescue membership.
Individuals and Families Global Rescue will protect you and your family and could save your life. If an injury or illness occurs more than 160 miles from home, domestically or abroad, Global Rescue will provide you with expert medical advice and will transport you to your home country hospital of choice. For those travelers visiting remote areas, Global Rescue is the only worldwide emergency evacuation provider in existence with the ability to come to you at the site of the accident or illness. We have performed field rescue missions around the globe, from the deepest canyon to the tallest peak. Whether traveling for business, leisure or adventure, we have plans to fit every traveler and offer special rates for students and families. Non-medical memberships are also available for security services and evacuations.
corporations Global Rescue will provide your business the resilience to survive disruption and ensure your people have a reliable and rapid response when things go wrong. It is important to remember that crisis response is just a single component of the enterprise-wide risk management that Global Rescue provides to Fortune 500 companies and other multinational corporations. Our security services are tailored to your company’s needs and range from mass evacuations out of unstable regions and natural disasters to security audits that protect your facilities from threats. With Global Rescue’s intelligence services, including employee and asset tracking software, real-time intelligence reports and broadcast alerts, security officers are well informed when evaluating risks. If you are responsible for the safety of your employees, don’t let them travel without Global Rescue’s protection.
Affinity Partners and resellers Global Rescue will protect your clients. If your company or organization has clientele who travel, we can work together to help you offer them the best protection possible. Whether your clients are trekking the Himalaya or sipping wine in the French countryside, Global Rescue will ensure that when a crisis happens we are the ones solving it, not you. Offering or mandating a Global Rescue plan to all of your members or clients will reduce your liability. Global Rescue is the official provider of medical evacuation for many organizations including Safari Club International, the American Alpine Club, the U.S. Ski and Snowboard teams, National Geographic and many others. We will work with you to provide discounts on membership and special coverage customized to your activities.
Global Rescue is the official provider of aeromedical and rescue services to the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Teams and The American Alpine Club
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