Drone Rules for Hospital Rainha Santa Isabel - Torres Novas (Centro Hospitalar Médio Tejo, EPE)
Operating open-category drones is strictly forbidden in the immediate airspace surrounding the Hospital Rainha Santa Isabel - Torres Novas (Centro Hospitalar Médio Tejo, EPE) within the city of Torres Novas, Santarém district, ensuring unobstructed approach paths for critical care medical transport.
A micro-airspace review of the environment encompassing the Hospital Rainha Santa Isabel - Torres Novas (Centro Hospitalar Médio Tejo, EPE) emphasizes its role as a primary emergency medical hub inside the city of Torres Novas, situated in the Santarém district. Given that this infrastructure accommodates urgent patient transfers across the Médio Tejo regional healthcare network, incoming emergency helicopters rely on completely clear low-altitude vectors. To prevent catastrophic interactions between civilian drones and manned medical aircraft, this protective zone is heavily regulated. Under the provisions of Portuguese Decree-Law (Regulamento 1093/2016), all open-category drone activities are prohibited within the safe radius of this hospital infrastructure, making it mandatory for operators to obtain explicit, prior authorization from ANAC before any flight can occur.