COVID-19: VINCI Concessions' French network mobilised for patient transport
As part of the Résilience operation announced by French President Emmanuel Macron, VINCI Concessions’ infrastructures are being mobilised for the medical transport of sick patients from Covid-19, as well as medical equipment.
On 29 and 30 March, Grenoble Alpes Isère airport received four medical flights from eastern France, enabling eight patients to be transferred to Grenoble Hospital. The hospitals are currently identifying needs and availability to plan other possible flights in the near future.
In addition, two medical TGV high-speed trains from Nancy and Mulhouse took the South Europe Atlantic high-speed railway line on 29 March to transport 36 patients to hospitals in New Aquitaine. Some 20 employees of Mesea, the VINCI Concessions subsidiary in charge of operating and maintaining the high-speed rail line, were mobilised to take particular care in monitoring the transport and thus contribute, at their level, to this initiative.
