What does emergency medical evacuation mean?

Emergency medical evacuation is often abbreviated as “”medevac”” or “”medivac””. Emergency medical evacuation is the transportation from one hospital to another in the case of serious illness or an injury that requires urgent treatment. It occurs only when the local hospital can’t provide adequate treatment.

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