Due to pressure from the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to restore Category 1 aviation safety, out of conviction or whatever, the fact is that during this administration the Aviation Medicine area was re-formed, now as a department within the Federal Civil Aviation Agency (AFAC), something that many industry players were asking for, not only because it “sounds good” but for very powerful reasons.
First of all, Aviation Medicine is a specialty that, unfortunately, is no longer available to many civilians, although it would be very important if the Faculty of Medicine of UNAM or some other prestigious university taught it.
Why is it important? First of all, it should be remembered that the conditions in which crew members or air traffic controllers work are not the same as those of any other professional in any other sector. Aviation and also the aerospace industry are often professions subject to conditions that test the resistance and resilience of the human body.
Pressurized environments, recurrent time changes, jet lag, the so-called “economy class syndrome”, that is, blood circulation that, if not taken care of, can lead to thrombosis, and many other conditions that are in the catalog of the specialty, are proof that this type of professionals, so important since they take care of our safety, cannot be treated like any other activity.
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That is why it was so important for the air transport industry to recover this area. Back in the 1960s, both Aviation Medicine and the Civil Aviation Training and Instruction Center (CIAAC) were two important and avant-garde institutions that at the time gave Mexico a status in aviation in the world. We must remember Dr. Luis Amezcua, a pioneer and great doctor who created the Mexican Center for Aviation Medicine and brought the specialty to our country. He was in charge of training hundreds of doctors and showing airlines, trade associations and many industry players the importance of paying attention to this important operational safety tool, which is to have crew members and aeronautical technicians in excellent health conditions so that flights can be carried out safely.
In the 1990s, some bureaucrat came up with the idea that there should not be an exclusive department of Aviation Medicine and concentrated it on Preventive Medicine for Transport, which put an end to the specialty.
Today, the person in charge of recovering the Aviation Medicine area is Dr. Edgar Rivas Pelayo, who in these 20 months has managed to reduce the backlog in which this office was since the authorized third-party doctors were canceled, in addition to the fact that the pandemic was going through, still inserted in Transportation Medicine.
Little by little the area has been recovering, although there are still many things missing, such as, for example, re-establishing the Aviation Medicine Center, which should rightly be called Luis Amezcua, and having professors (of which the Sedena has many) to train new professionals in this specialty. Hopefully. E-mail: raviles0829@gmail.com
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