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Helicopter pads are not available everywhere.


Where do you think an organ transport helicopter would need to land? In a larger hospital or next to your local butcher?

Almost every hospital, at least everyone that does transplants, will have a landing pad.


But that's the point - this would enable new use cases, like for example performing emergency organ replacement at a smaller hospital, when transport is too dangerous for the person, or when a helicopter is not available.

Also, you might be transporting organs from a smaller place to a big hospital - donors that got into an accident probably didn't take care to have it near a helipad.


> Almost every hospital, at least everyone that does transplants, will have a landing pad.

Perhaps before they had that, this same line of thinking might have concluded they didn't need one, as they already had a car park.


I suppose helicopter pilots are a bit hard to come by also




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