Medical evacuation flights from Haiti were halted when the governor of Florida, Charles Crist, said that its hospitals had no more hospital beds.

Last week, a White House spokesman said that there needed to be a hospital ready to accept a patient and a place for these kinds of planes to land.  Those were the physical problems.

The real one was: Who will pay?

The key sentence in the item below is, “Having received assurances that additional capacity injured Haitian earthquake victims within the next 12 hours,” the White House said.

The announcement came Sunday afternoon.

Reuters

“The U.S. military will resume evacuation flights to the United States for critically injured Haitian earthquake victims within the next 12 hours, the White House said on Sunday.

“Having received assurances that additional capacity exists both here and among our international partners, we determined that we can resume these critical flights,” White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said in a statement.

“The flights are on track to resume in the next 12 hours,” Vietor said.”

“The U.S. military medevac flights have been halted since Wednesday over a dispute about where the patients would be treated and the costs of their care.”

Source: Reuters, January 31, 2010