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Why KisangaraAfrica’s largest protected ecosystem — at 5% of the visitor density.
Southern CircuitAMREF provides emergency air evacuation throughout East Africa.
The Flying Doctors Society of Africa (AMREF) provides emergency air evacuation from any location in East Africa to the nearest appropriate medical facility. For Tanzania safari visitors and Kilimanjaro climbers, this is the single most important additional cover to arrange — and at $25 per person per year, it is the best value safety investment available.
AMREF Flying Doctors has operated in East Africa for over sixty years. Their fleet of fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters is based at Wilson Airport in Nairobi and can reach any point in the Serengeti, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Kilimanjaro, or the southern parks within a maximum of two hours. Response time to the Serengeti averages under two hours from activation of the emergency. For a medical emergency in the field — cardiac event, severe trauma, Kilimanjaro altitude emergency — this response time is the difference between adequate and critical.
The cost of an emergency air evacuation from the Serengeti to Nairobi without Flying Doctors membership ranges from $15,000 to $25,000 depending on aircraft type, flight time, and the specific origin and destination. With Flying Doctors membership, this cost is covered in its entirety. The membership operates globally for travel-related emergencies in the East Africa coverage area and does not require the emergency to be in a specific location — if you collapse in Arusha town, you are covered. If you have a medical emergency on the Kilimanjaro summit crater at 5,895 metres, you are covered.
Kisangara includes Flying Doctors enrollment information and the direct emergency number in all pre-travel documentation. We recommend that all guests purchase Flying Doctors membership before departure — not as a condition of booking, but because fifteen years of operating in Tanzania has shown us that it matters. We have coordinated four AMREF evacuations for guests over our operating history. In three cases, the membership covered the full cost. In the fourth, the guest had not purchased the membership.