MEDICAL SERVICE
The crew members and the CAs when flying abroad must have a special document which is called “International Certificate of Vaccination”. This is to certify that a person has been vaccinated or revaccinated against the yellow fever, smallpox and cholera. The outgoing Russian citizens must also have such a document.
Foreign tourists arriving in Russia from any country where they have an epidemic of the typhoid fever, malaria, plague or some other infectious diseases must also have a medical certificate.
During the flight some passengers may feel bad. CAs must be well trained to administer first aid. That is why on board each aircraft a first – aid kit is carried. It contains a tight, a splint, syringe, cotton wool, bandages, gauze, a medicine dropper, a hot water bag and a thermometer. There are also different medicines in drops, pills, tablets or powder. Iodine, ammonia, ointment and spirit of camphor are also included into the first – aid kit.
The medicines help the CA to administer the first aid if a passenger has a terrible headache or a stomachache, a heart attack, a fit of coughing or an abscess, intoxication or bleeding. If the CA is helpless, let’s say, when a passenger has stenocardia or an awful liver attack, an attack of appendicitis or even there may be a delivery, she must inform the Captain who then requests emergency landing because of a sick passenger on board. A doctor on duty usually meets the aircraft after its landing.