Sarla Aviation, Aster DM Healthcare, and Aeromed International Sign MoU to Explore Urban Air Mobility for Medical Transport in India

India's healthcare infrastructure saves millions of lives every year. But for too many patients, the most critical variable isn't the quality of care waiting at the hospital — it's whether they can get there in time.

Every minute matters in a medical emergency. The difference between a patient surviving a cardiac event, a trauma, or a neonatal crisis often comes down to how fast they reach the right facility. Today, that window is constrained by roads, traffic, and geography. Urban Air Mobility has the potential to change that equation entirely.

Sarla Aviation has signed an MoU with Aster DM Healthcare and Aeromed International Rescue Services Pvt. Ltd. (AIRS) — marking a landmark moment in India's medical future. With this partnership, Aster Medcity Kochi becomes the first hospital chain in India to formally explore Urban Air Mobility integration for patient transport.

Aster DM Healthcare is one of India's leading integrated healthcare providers, with a network of hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies serving millions of patients. Aster Medcity in Kochi is among the country's most advanced multi-specialty hospitals — and a natural starting point for exploring how aerial connectivity can improve emergency and critical care access.

Aeromed International Rescue Services brings deep operational expertise in air ambulance services, aeromedical logistics, and critical care transport — the kind of real-world experience that will be essential to making air medical mobility safe, reliable, and scalable.

Through this collaboration, Sarla Aviation, Aster DM Healthcare, and Aeromed will work together to:

- Design aircraft cabin configurations optimised for critical care transport.

- Identify hospital-to-hospital and door-to-door patient transfer corridors

- Develop end-to-end standard operating procedures for air medical transport

- Assess landing zone readiness across Aster's network, starting with Medcity Kochi

- Engage jointly with DGCA and MoCA on regulatory pathways for medical UAM operations

This is not about replacing existing emergency infrastructure. It is about adding a layer of capability that India's healthcare system has never had — the ability to move patients by air, quickly and safely, within and between cities, bypassing the constraints that ground transport cannot overcome.

At Sarla Aviation, we are building aircraft for India — for its roads, its distances, its people. And with partners like Aster DM Healthcare and Aeromed, we are building something larger: a new standard for emergency care access in this country.