Mission Review
Scotland's Charity Air Ambulance operates two helicopter air ambulances - Helimed 76 based in Perth and Helimed 79 based in Aberdeen. Our crews are often tasked to some of Scotland's remotest communities, including her many islands. Here are just some of the call outs we've responded to recently.
SCAA’s Helimed 76 recently picked up a consultant-led specialist team in Glasgow on route to a serious road traffic collision involving a motorcycle near Tyndrum. An injured woman was then airlifted to the Major Trauma Centre at Glasgow’s QEUH - just 15 minutes by air from the accident scene.
A tourist who injured himself in a fall at Fionnphort on Mull was airlifted by SCAA to mainland hospital care at Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital. The man suffered leg injuries when alighting from a bus at the popular island port. SCAA was assisted by Scottish Ambulance Service colleagues and Coastguard personnel at the scene.
A Coastguard vehicle transported SCAA paramedics from their landing spot to the scene of a bicycle accident on the Isle of Eigg recently. A woman suffered a serious arm injury in the accident and was airlifted by SCAA to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness for advanced care.
A rural GP on the island of Colonsay called for air assistance when a patient required an emergency transfer to mainland hospital care. SCAA took around 35 minutes to fly the man to the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley - a journey that would otherwise have taken hours by road and ferry.
SCAA's Helimed 79 air ambulance recently landed close to an injured woman on the slopes of Bennachie after she took a tumble while walking on the popular Aberdeenshire hill. The woman, who broke her ankle in the fall, was then airlifted to advanced care at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary in under 10 minutes.
SCAA recently flew to the aid of a teenage girl injured in a horse riding incident at an equestrian event in New Deer. SCAA paramedics worked with first aiders and Scottish Ambulance Service land crew colleagues before the girl was taken to hospital with a SCAA teddy bear to comfort her.
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