Asia Rescue and Medical Services Pvt Ltd

Asia Rescue and Medical Services Pvt Ltd, called ARMS, is a medical assistance company. It arranges air ambulance flights, road ambulance transfers and medical escorts. Its registered alarm centre is in India, and it has branch offices in Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Nepal.

The company was founded in 1987. It provides medical assistance, travel assistance and aeromedical rescue services for travellers visiting South Asia, South East Asia and Mauritius. The site says most of its partners are travel insurance and assistance companies.

The emergency services include air ambulance flights worldwide and road ambulances at basic or advanced life support level. Other services include commercial flight stretcher bookings, doctor and nurse escorts, time-critical or planned hospital admissions and the repatriation of human remains. The site also lists help with lost passports, visa extensions and cash advances.

The company says it has three full time doctors, two nurses and 15 other staff in house. Its alarm centre runs 24 hours a day and supports six spoken languages. The site says it works with a network of more than 3000 service providers in South Asia and Mauritius.

The site lists medical equipment for flights, including cardiac monitors, ventilators, portable oxygen, defibrillators, infusion drugs and suction machines. It says the company holds ISO 9001:2015 certification. It also reports more than 1500 medical assistance files a year.

Patient testimonials on the site come from people treated in France and the United Kingdom. The site also has a team page, a gallery and a blog. Phone numbers for India and Sri Lanka are listed on the contact page.