Midlands Air Ambulance Charity attends 70,000th mission
The service started offering pre-hospital emergency services in 1991
Midlands Air Ambulance Charity has now surpassed its milestone 70,000th 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.”