The air ambulance helicopter with the National Guard conscript has taken off from the airport in Larnaca.
The National Guard conscript, aged 17, was admitted in a hospital after he admitted to feeling ill while participating in an exercise.
He is being taken to France, where he will be admitted in Paul Brousse Hospital – which functions as a transplant center as well as a university hospital.
Right now, the young man is in a critical condition, but remains stable.
According to Demetris Constantinou, spokesperson for the health ministry, the air ambulance left a day after its intended flight, as it had already finished its flight hours on that day.
