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Thursday September 28, 2006

Flying to save lives

As a result of the Hamster's accident last week the profile of the UK's Air Ambulances has been raised to a new level. All the English and Welsh flights are funded by charity. In Scotland they have had the hindsight to fund these by Government. The Yorkshire service has had so much money donated to it as a result of this high profile incident that they will be able to start a second service and reach about three hundred people they can't help now as the helicopter was already on a call. For the Hamster the service may well have saved his life, he was in a hospital in twelve minutes which has specialist facilities that he needed to ensure he survived. Even with a blue light no road based ambulance could ever provide that turnaround - it was has been estimated it would have taken such a vehicle forty five minutes to do that journey. The service these guys offer as well as being quick can mean they cna get to places where no road based service can reach, mountains fields - in fact after road accidents horse accidents are the second most common incident. Our next door neighbour who is retired spends a lot of him time helping our local service raise money and we buy Xmas cards etc off them to do our bit.

( Sep 28 2006, 12:00:02 AM PDT ) Permalink