Common use of Emergency Medical Evacuation Clause in Contracts

Emergency Medical Evacuation. SOS will arrange and pay for the ordinary and necessary expense of air and/ or surface transportation, medical care during transportation, communications and all usual and customary ancillary charges incurred in moving and transporting a Member to the nearest hospital where appropriate medical care is available, which may be a location other than the Member’s Place of Residence or Host Country. Intl.SOS reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to determine whether the Member’s medical condition is sufficiently serious to warrant medical evacuation, the location to which the Member will be evacuated and the means or method by which such evacuation will be carried out. In making such arrangements, Intl.SOS may consider all relevant circumstances including, but not limited to the Member’s medical condition, the degree of urgency, the Member’s fitness to travel, airport availability, weather conditions and travel distance in determining whether transportation will be provided by private medically equipped aircraft, helicopter, regular scheduled flight, rail or land vehicle. Transportation shall be carried out under constant medical supervision, unless otherwise approved by an Intl.SOS physician.