The SAMU 22 emergency medical service coordinates urgent medical response operations throughout the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany, operating from the Centre Hospitalier de Saint-Brieuc and its Hôpital Yves Le Foll complex. As part of the national French Service d’Aide Médicale Urgente network, SAMU 22 manages emergency medical regulation, physician-led pre-hospital interventions, and intensive care transport missions across a territory characterized by coastal communities, rural inland areas, and challenging maritime weather conditions along the northern Brittany shoreline. The helicopter component of the service operates through a partnership with
Babcock MCS France, which provides the aircraft, pilots, and aviation maintenance infrastructure, while hospital-based physicians and medical personnel from the Saint-Brieuc healthcare network oversee the clinical operations and emergency dispatch coordination. Through its integrated SAMU-SMUR framework, the organization delivers rapid response capabilities for severe trauma, cardiac emergencies, stroke cases, and maritime rescue-related incidents throughout the region.
Permanently based at Saint-Brieuc, the helicopter supports both primary rescue interventions and secondary inter-hospital intensive care transfers, enabling rapid transport of critically ill or injured patients from remote sectors of Côtes-d'Armor toward specialized university trauma and surgical centers elsewhere in western France.
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