A poorly patient needing specialist treatment has been airlifted directly from Newport’s Victoria Rec to the mainland by the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Air Ambulance this evening (Wednesday).
It was sometime before 18:00 that the Isle of Wight Ambulance Service responded to a local individual needing urgent medical care, with an ambulance and enhanced care paramedic mobilised.
The circumstances of the emergency prompted the scrambling of the air ambulance from Thruxton, near Andover, with the distinctive yellow and green helicopter touching down in the center of Newport at 18:30.
Crowds made space as the flying medics landed at Victoria Recreation Ground near Carisbrooke, where paramedics were waiting for a swift handover.
The patient has since been flown across the Solent to Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth for further assessment and treatment, most likely for a cardiac complaint.
The air ambulance took off at 18:57.
It is the 4th mission this week for the life-saving charity, having attended other incidents in Bembridge, Yaverland and Newport.
Where would the island be without the mainland
hospitals and wonderful air ambulance.