Children sometimes need air lifting too.....

The air ambulance also air lifts a number of children to hospital in the county every year. Analysis of 2009 so far, shows that the helicopter has already been called out to 60 emergencies involving children, 16 of these being babies under 1 year old. The majority of injured and seriously ill children are taken to Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro, or Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, but this year 6 of the most serious cases has to be flown to the specialist units at Frenchay in Bristol, in order to receive the emergency treatment they needed.

Incidents so far in 2009, include everything from teenagers falling off their bike or their horse and sustaining head injuries, to children suffering burns from fire or hot water, children unable to breathe or who had stopped breathing, cases of cardiac arrest, fitting and and falls from height sustaining head, neck and back injuries.

The charity is grateful to parents like Jackie and Mike from Grampound, and Mrs and Mrs Theyer from Newbury, all of whom have given back tremendous support to the charity since their children were air lifted from Cornish beaches last summer. Jackie says that she and Mike are convinced that the speed of the helicopter was crucial in saving their nine year old daughter who nearly drowned, and the Theyer’s are pleased to report that their son is now back at karate classes and playing sport in school, after he spent some time recovering from falling almost 100 feet over the cliffs at Gwithian.

These cases are just some of the reasons why the air ambulance is so important in Cornwall, and why we ask for your support to help keep it flying every year.

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Air Ambulance, help them today, you may need them tomorrow.