A stroke patient had to be transported from El Centro Regional Medical Center to UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest.
County health officials link the increase of infection rates to May when the large industrial Mexican border city of Mexicali stopped receiving COVID-19 patients, forcing U.S. citizens living there to cross the border into Imperial County and seek care. Michael Bobeck checks the fuel of the Mercy Air ambulance helicopter he will be piloting for the night.The company is owned and operated by Air Methods, one of the largest air medical transport companies in the U.S. It operates 300 bases in 48 states, many of them located in California and Nevada.
Mercy Air was working on completing construction of a new base at the airport when the pandemic brought everything to a halt. For now, the teams of pilots, critical care nurses and paramedics have been working out of a hotel about 300 feet from the airport.Hinton said aircraft from the surrounding bases have been brought in to help deal with the high volume of transport requests by the two hospitals in Imperial County.
Mercy Air officials say since March they have taken nearly 100 Covid-19 patients out of Imperial County.
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