WILL YOU SAY ‘YES’ TO KEEPING A CHILD ALIVE?
Our helicopters are flying intensive care units for babies and children. We urgently need you to say “YES” and help to provide this lifesaving support.
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Can pay for childrens ear defenders to protect ears from our noisy rotors.
Could pay towards fuels for flying a child to the specialist care they deseperately need
Can pay towards oxygen to help critically ill children breathe
INDIGO'S STORY
When 13-month-old Indigo suffered a series of strokes a few weeks after having chickenpox she needed specialist paediatric care at a hospital 340 miles away.
The Children’s Air Ambulance was able to pick up a specialist retrieval team from Wales and West Acute Transport for Children Service (WATCh) and fly them to collect Indigo from the Royal Cornwall Hospital. Once they arrived, the team prepared Indigo for the flight to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and accompanied her in the helicopter. Indigo’s mum, Leighanne, was able to join them for the flight using the helicopters special parent seat.
It took 2 hours and 18 minutes to fly from Truro to Liverpool compared with a road journey in a land ambulance of 5 hours 39 minutes.
I couldn’t believe all the equipment that was on the helicopter to treat Indigo and monitor her condition while we were flying. It was amazing. Most people have no idea that such intensive care takes place up in the sky. I believe that without the Children’s Air Ambulance and the team on board she would not have received the vital specialist treatment she needed so urgently as quickly as she did and may not have survived. You gave me her life.
Without donations, the Children’s Air Ambulance would not have been able to ‘say YES’ and help save Indigo. Each rescue mission costs over £3,600, but your donation today, whatever the amount, will ensure we help more critically ill babies like Indigo.
If you’d like to donate on our regular giving
Regular gifts enable us to plan, giving us sustainable long-term income and are easily set up on our donate form. Payments come out once a month via Direct Debit and can be as little or as much as you choose, as any gift, no matter the size, help to keep our helicopters flying.
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