‘We are truly grateful for the wonderful care your team gave to Sister. She said she was very comfortable and well cared for and then went off to sleep!!! We assure you of our prayers and gratitude for coming into our lives.'
For those people who wish to undertake a pilgrimage within Europe but feel put off by having a medical condition we would be pleased to take over all the travel arrangements on your behalf.
Wheelchair users can often be taken on schedule flights, accompanied by a Mediaviation medical flight nurse. Mediaviation arranges travel with the airlines, the ‘fit to fly' certificate and organises land ambulance transfers, if required, at either end of your journey.
Mediaviation can work with an organised diocesan pilgrimage or make the arrangements on behalf of individual pilgrims and their families.
Mediaviation staff can work in most European languages, taking the stress out of your journey.
For those requiring full medical supervision, Mediaviation arranges for:
- medical flight on board a fully equipped air ambulance to pick up at your nearest airport,
- trained medical flight personnel to accompany you throughout your medical pilgrimage,
- specialist land ambulance transfers to meet you at both airports.
Why should You think about flying?
Well, a journey from the UK to Lourdes will take a minimum of 12 hours by coach from Calais. If you wish to go to Fatima, that will be even more, whilst Knock is a sea crossing plus a coach trip. All of which adds to the discomfort of someone who is ill! By air the journey times are dramatically reduced:
- UK to France - Tarbes (for Lourdes) 2hrs 25mins
- UK to Portugal - Porto (for Fatima) 2hrs 50mins
- UK to Ireland - Connaught (for Knock) 1hrs 45mins
- UK to Italy - Rome (for St. Peter's Basilica) 2hrs 40mins
- UK to Spain - Santiago de Compostela 2hrs 15mins
If you would like to discuss medical pilgrimage services (either with our medical flight escort on board of commercial flight or a medical flight by air ambulance), please call Joanna Sukiennik on +44 (0) 845 094 8408 (UK office hours) or +44 (0) 7595 217 757 out of hours.
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