LIFE-saving flying doctors ‘desperately’ need the public’s help to stay airborne as they look forward to flying their 40,000th mission on June 24.
Since 2003, Your Local Air Ambulance – which operates the Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance (WNAA) and the Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland Air Ambulance (DLRAA) – has touched the lives of thousands of individuals and families, with each crew attending an average of five missions a day.
Within minutes they can be at an incident delivering pre-hospital critical care to patients in order to give them the best chance of survival and recovery.
Based at Coventry Airport, the Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance is staffed by dedicated Critical Care Paramedics and Doctors who are able to perform out of hospital surgical procedures from thoracotomies and caesareans to amputations by the roadside.
But with each mission costing an average of £1,700, the charity – which is entirely funded by public donations – needs the continued support of the public to enable it to continue saving lives.
Your Local Air Ambulance CEO, Andy Williamson said the 40,000th mission was an incredible milestone.
He said: “We have reached this 40,000 mission milestone as a charity providing continued support to the NHS, which has been vital during these last few months.
“We have been supported by donations from generous individuals and organisations on behalf of the charity, and we thank you all for that.
“After the difficult time we have all found ourselves in, we desperately need the public’s support now more than ever to enable us to continue providing leading pre-hospital emergency care to our patients and to reach that next milestone.
“You never know when a call will come in for our vital services, but we do know that when it does, our critical care teams are there for everyone 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.”
Visit www.airambulanceservice.org.uk or call 0300 3045 999 to support the charity.
