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Speaker 1: What's your community? Start your community. Sorry, he's on a

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Speaker 1: mission to find out, so he's turning up at your home.

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Speaker 2: Better get ready for Leicester in your lounge life on

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Speaker 2: Keto on Talk we had the hangar of the Essay

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Speaker 2: Red Cross Air Mercy Service and they've been celebrating nearly

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Speaker 2: six decades of transporting the critically ill and injured patients

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Speaker 2: offering from remote rural communities to the major hospitals like Crotaskia,

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Speaker 2: the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital. And we're broadcasting

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Speaker 2: here from the hangar from a place where where life

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Speaker 2: saving missions literally take off. So joining me this morning

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Speaker 2: to start this conversation is Vanessa Haunch. She's a spokesperson

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Speaker 2: for the Essay Red Cross Air Mercy Service and Vanessa,

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Speaker 2: thanks so much, really appreciate you inviting us here today.

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Speaker 2: It's a really special place. But maybe it's start what

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Speaker 2: ours may not be able to see now. We'll obviously

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Speaker 2: we'll put the videos up on our socials later, but

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Speaker 2: but what happens here behind the scenes in this angle

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Speaker 2: is a fixed wing to my left hand side, there's

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Speaker 2: a helicopter. Three helicopters to my right headside. We're all

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Speaker 2: the magic happens before you have to take off, before

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Speaker 2: we have to take off on those often life saving missions.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Good morning, listen, Good morning to your listeners,

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Speaker 1: and welcome to the Cape Town based operation of the

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Speaker 1: Air Mercy Service. It's an absolute pleasure to have you

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Speaker 1: guys here around us. We have both our aircraft. As

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Speaker 1: you've indicated, our aircraft is ready for operation. We have

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Speaker 1: our highly skilled pilot's medics that's going to do their checks.

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Speaker 1: You've seen the fixing pilot pull out the fixing ready

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Speaker 1: for a mission. We have a national operation center tracking

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Speaker 1: our aircraft. We have our engineers coming coming in soon

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Speaker 1: to look at the aircraft that's standing in the maintenance

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Speaker 1: side of the anger. And we are ready to go

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Speaker 1: and be of service to the community of the Western

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Speaker 1: cap and South Africa. And this year is an absolutely

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Speaker 1: rem mamarkable year. We'll be celebrating sixty years of service

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Speaker 1: to the community, sixty years of providing access to healthcare

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Speaker 1: for those remote, vulnerable communities that so much needs this

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Speaker 1: aero medical service.

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Speaker 2: You know, when a an organization operates well, and there's

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Speaker 2: almost a misnomer when when when the service operates so well,

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Speaker 2: the I think, oh it's a it's a state entity.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, it's that's it's the air ambulance. But no,

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Speaker 2: you're you're you're not connected to the state. You're you

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Speaker 2: you contracted to the state. You do you do many

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Speaker 2: operations and partnerships with the Western Cape government. But that's

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Speaker 2: how entrenched in people's minds. When we do news reports

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Speaker 2: saying oh the person, the patient was airlifted by the

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Speaker 2: sa A Mercy Service, many people think, oh, that's that's

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Speaker 2: that's a government institution, which means you're so entrenched in

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Speaker 2: South African's minds, particularly in the Western Caper.

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Speaker 1: Really yeah, absolutely, an independent nonprofit aeromedical risk organization in

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Speaker 1: the Western Cape. We are contracted to the Western Care

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Speaker 1: Department of Health to provide eeromedical service via helicopter and

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Speaker 1: fixed doing in the Western Cape, we operate a rescue

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Speaker 1: and inter facility transfer service where we provide this with

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Speaker 1: our highly skilled and capable of rescue equiped helicopters and

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Speaker 1: fixing aircraft. That is that's basically intensifcare units in the skies.

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Speaker 2: Literally it is airborne ambulances. But I also want to

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Speaker 2: talk about later and we'll well speak to a hard halfagen.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you can touch on it a little bit, but

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Speaker 2: you've also been on a mission not only to provide

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Speaker 2: the medical and healthcare and the transportation services, but you're

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Speaker 2: also very engaged in the development of young pilots. You

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Speaker 2: engage in the development of young medics, trying to get

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Speaker 2: young people to engage and be inspired by the work

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Speaker 2: that you do here.

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Speaker 1: Yes, at AMAS, we believe in value added services. We

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Speaker 1: believe in the development of people. We believe in the

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Speaker 1: development of young individuals to be able to retain them

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Speaker 1: in the country. We have a engineering department. We take

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Speaker 1: younger printices, our highly skilled engineers provides them with the

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Speaker 1: capacity and with the learnership to be able to equip

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Speaker 1: them to become independent signed out engineers. We have We

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Speaker 1: take young paramedics where we teach them. We have a

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Speaker 1: ADET Pilot Development program were are pilots. We take them

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Speaker 1: in a structured environment. We provide highly skilled training on

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Speaker 2: We are in an operational area. We will be speaking

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Speaker 2: for dagas the CEO of the Essay recross Air Mercy Service.

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Speaker 2: But just so that Bruce and graphic yearners. We're in

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Speaker 2: an operational area. So if emergency does happen, now the

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Speaker 2: hangars open, the pilots rush in, the medics rush in,

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Speaker 2: and the helicopters and the fixed wings go out.

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Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, you'll you'll soon see the media starting to

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Speaker 1: do their checks to check the medical equipment, to check

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Speaker 1: to be airborne. A airicopter as it stands, is airborne

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Speaker 1: ready for emission. So if we are dispatched now via

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Speaker 1: the Metro control room, we go the fixing you've seen,

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Speaker 1: they are going to be taking off a little bit

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Speaker 1: later this morning for a mission as well. And then

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Speaker 1: we also have our other fixing aircraft that is that

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Speaker 1: is ready for interfacility transfers.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's good to be and thank you so much

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Speaker 2: for having us. Vanessa Horn, she's the public relations officer

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Speaker 2: of the SA Raid Cross a Mercy Angle. Late in

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Speaker 2: the show, we're going to be speaking to vand Halfaji,

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Speaker 2: the CEO. We're going to be speaking to the pilots,

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Speaker 2: We're going to be speaking to the medics, but also

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Speaker 2: we may be speaking to people whose lives have changed

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Speaker 2: or have been saved by the SSA, a mercy service