Midlands Air Ambulance Charity attends 70,000th mission

Midlands Air Ambulance Charity has now surpassed its milestone 70,000^th mission.

The charity offers services across UK counties Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, the West Midlands, and Worcestershire.

The pre-hospital emergency service started out with one temporary helicopter in 1991, and now operates a fleet of three air ambulance helicopters and three critical care cars across the six-county region.

The charity’s 70,000th mission was a young motorcyclist, just 17 years old at the time, who had been involved in road traffic collision.

Kerry Hemus, Patient Liaison Lead and Critical Care Paramedic for the charity, said: “Surpassing our 70,000th mission in our 32nd year of operation is a massive milestone for our team.

“When our service first started it was about getting the patient to the hospital quickly. Fast-forward to today, and we now bring the hospital to our patients in terms of the interventions we can perform, coupled with the advanced medicines and hospital-level equipment we bring. In our 70,000th mission this certainly was the case, and we are glad to see the motorcyclist recovering well.”