Air ambulance which serves Bedfordshire to start transporting patients again
It will take Covid and non-Covid patients
East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA) is preparing to start transferring patient between hospitals again to help frontline emergency services with the Covid-19 response.
The patients - both Covid and non-Covid - will all be critically ill and anaesthetised.
The charity supported the transfer of 17 critically ill Covid-19 positive patients by road ambulance between April and May. In this second wave, the air ambulance will also be taking non-Covid-19 patients on the helicopter.
The transfers will take place alongside the charity’s normal air ambulance work and will act as a back-up to hospitals.
Doctor Victor Inyang, medical director at EAAA, said: “It’s vital to us as a charitable organisation that we continue to support the NHS and other frontline emergency services with the crisis response to the pandemic. Our teams have the pre-hospital critical care skills to be able to assist in these transfers, and we’re happy to help wherever we can alongside our 999 call outs."