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"Our goal for The
Flying Hospital remains clear and unequivocal.
We are citizens of the world and The Flying
Hospital will be available to help the sick and
needy of any nation," said Mr. Walter Frehe, the
organization's new Chief Executive Officer.
(See
schematic drawing) A 30 plus year
aviation veteran, Frehe has held senior management
and consulting positions with numerous airlines and
aviation companies including Western Airlines,
Regent Airlines and Federal Express. He
explained that The Flying Hospital would be
operated "as a 100 percent, non-denominational,
non-religious, worldwide humanitarian
effort." Our
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NOTE:
The Flying Doctors' Society of Africa
(FDSA) was founded in 1970, primarily to
finance the work of the Flying Doctor
Service (FDS), one of AMREF's oldest
programmes offering medical evacuation
services to critically ill patients in
remote areas. The Society funds other
projects including surgical safaris and
specialist outreach programmes in East
Africa; the radio communication network,
the 24-hour standby emergency personnel
and free medical evacuation and transfer
flights for the poor. Surgeons,
Physicians, flight nurses, pilots, a fleet
of aircraft, ground ambulances and a 24
hour Emergency Communication and Response
Centre make up the famous Flying Doctor
Service. The service is supported by
subscriptions to the Flying Doctors'
Society of Africa. http://www.flyingdoctorsocietyafrica.com/ The Flying
Hospital has previously conducted The World Journey
of Hope forOperation Smile in 1999 visiting
Honduras, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador,
Bolivia, Brazil, Panama, Morocco, Italy, Romania,
Russia, Gaza Strip/Middle East, Kenya, Philippines,
Thailand, Vietnam and China in 68 days. "The Flying
Hospital provides the best possible example of how
to bring countries closer together though offering
care and medical training. I am proud to be
associated with this wonderful charity," said His
Royal Highness Prince Michael of Kent, KCVO and a
member of its International Advisory
Board. The Flying
Hospital has also conducted medical assignments in
El Salvador, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, India and Mexico
and performed during the past five years, more than
90,000 life-changing medical and surgical
procedures - of which more than 3,000 surgeries
were performed on board The Flying Hospital and in
partnering healthcare facilities. At a cost of more
than $25 Million to build and including the latest
medical and avionics technology, The Flying
Hospital is an outpatient surgical facility
dedicated to addressing the unmet medical needs of
populations around the world. The L-1011-50
aircraft is controlled by The Flying
Hospital Inc. (FHI); a
501(c)(3) charitable humanitarian organization
based in NewportNews, Virginia. The Flying
Hospital,
<www.flyinghospital.org>www.flyinghospital.org,
is a non-denominational,non-religious international
humanitarian effort. The new Flying Hospital
offices are located at 11836 Fishing Point Drive,
Suite 200, Newport News,Virginia, 23606. For
additional information, please phone The Flying
Hospital at 1-757-873-6794. NEWPORT NEWS,
Virginia: The Flying Hospital, Inc.
http://www.flyinghospital.org/, which manages the
world's largest fully equipped surgical hospital
ever constructed inside an aircraft, has named Mr.
Terryl L. Dickinson as its new Vice President of
Operations and Mr. John L. Rutan as it Director of
Maintenance. "We are very proud
to have these two highly talented individuals as
part of our management team, who combined have
nearly 50 years professional aviation experience.
Their knowledge and expertise with our
Lockheed L-1011 is extensive and we are very
pleased to have their expertise and knowledge
available," said Walter Frehe, Chief Executive
Officer, The Flying Hospital,Inc. Mr. Dickinson has
served The Flying Hospital as its Director of
Operations for the past three years and held senior
flight operations positions with US Airways from
1968-1994. Mr. Dickinson operated his own
aircraft consulting firm and during his two decades
as a chief pilot has logged more than 18,000
worldwide flight hours. For the past six
years, John L. Rutan has served as the Flying
Hospital's Chief Flight Engineer. Previously
Mr. Rutan served as a commercial aircraft-planning
supervisor for Tucson-based Lockheed AeroMod Inc.;
Project Manager for Bombardier Aerospace and a
Flight Mechanic for the Evergreen Air Center at
Marana, Arizona. Mr. Rutan earned a BS in
Professional Aeronautics from Embry Riddle
Aeronautical University and an AS in Flight
Engineering from Community College of The Air
Force. The Flying
Hospital is a medical vehicle that can be used by
non-profit organizations, corporations,
governmental agencies and other groups wishing to
sponsor short or long-term compassionate medical
missions throughout the world. The Flying Hospital
Inc., designs, coordinates, staffs and implements
these medical missions in partnership with the
organization sponsoring the humanitarian
endeavor. At a cost of more
than $25 Million to build and including the latest
medical and avionics technology, The Flying
Hospital is an outpatient surgical facility
dedicated to addressing the unmet medical needs of
populations around the world. The L-1011 aircraft
is controlled by The Flying Hospital Inc. (FHI), a
501(c)(3) charitable humanitarian organization
based in NewportNews, Virginia. The Flying
Hospital |
The
Flying Hospital is a medical vehicle that can be
used by non-profit organizations, corporations,
governmental agencies and other groups wishing to
sponsor short or long-term compassionate medical
missions throughout the world. The Flying Hospital
Inc., designs, coordinates staffs and implements
these medical missions in partnership with the
organization sponsoring thehumanitarian
endeavor.
