Derbyshire, Leicestershire & Rutland Air Ambulance (DLRAA)
| Published: 8th April 2008 10:56 |
Derbyshire, Leicestershire & Rutland Air Ambulance (DLRAA) is a new air ambulance service which took over from County Air Ambulance on 1 April 2008.
The new service is now underway based at East Milands Airport in Castle Donington. Fundraising has begun to raise the £1.5 million needed to run the service each year.
The new service will move the emphasis away from simply transporting casualties to hospital, to getting senior doctors and consultants to the scene of incidents as quickly as possible. DLRAA will convey its patients to specialist hospitals that can help specific injuries, not just the nearest hospital.
DLRAA will provide life saving treatment and medication on site and en-route to hospital. This is an invaluable service in cases where land ambulances are unable to access the scene or where transfer by land ambulance would be too slow or create more injury to the patient.
DLRAA's primary response area is the 2,100 square miles of Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Rutland. It will serve in excess of 1.4 million people.
It is your local air ambulance, please support it.
For more information visit their website here
Derbyshire, Leicestershire & Rutland Air Ambulance (DLRAA)
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