First Flight in the "Medical Air Corridor" Initiative Arrives in Spain wih 3 Million Masks for Hospitals

• The initiative by Fenin, the Oesía Group, and  Iberia,  is now engaged in a second flight to pick up additional supplies in China

The first flight of the Medical Air Corridor landed in  Spain in the early hours this morning with a load including three million face masks which will be distributed rapidly to hospitals. A second flight is now picking up additional supplies in China, and a third aircraft is at Madrid-Barajas airport where it will depart for China at midnight tonight.

The Medical Air Corridor, coordinated from a logistics centre, is backed and managed by the Federación Española de Empresas de Tecnología Sanitaria (Fenin), an association of Spanish medical technology firms, and also by the Oesía logistics group and Iberia Airlines. Spain's Ministries of Heath, Foreign Affairs, Finance and Industry, and Trade and Tourism are also actively involved in the initiative, and are dealing with the complex paperwork required by an operation of this scale, especielly during the global health crisis.

The Medical Air Corridor is intended to merge the capacities of the three partners with those of other initiatives. Together, joining public and private forces, we can contribute to speeding and expanding the delivery to Spain of medical supplies needed for:

• preventing contagion by COVID-19,
• conducting more diagnostic tests to detect the disease
• treating patients

The Medical Air Corridor is open to requests for material from all pbulic bocies and eompoaneis that need them.  They can contact the centre at the email address CorredorSanitario@oesia.com.

To ensure the full funcioning of this infrastructure, the follwing capacities have been deployed in this initiative:

• Fenin's knowledge of the medical technology sector,  and its relations with all health authorities.
• The logistical strength in Spain of the Oesía Group, which has established special coordination centres in Madrid and Valdepeñas  (where the Tecnobit-Grupo Oesíafactory is located). along with its relations with public bodies, including regional public health services and all national police and security forces, which are playing a key role in this crisis.
• The aircraft, crews, planning,  ground equipment and teams faciliated for the project by Iberia. Passenger planes idled by the crisis are being used to carry freight, open  more routes and supplement badly strained fleets of air freighters.

The sole aim of the three partners in the Medical Air Corridor is to join forces to combat COVID-19 effectively and in a humanitarian spirit.  #corredoraereosanitario