The Hampshire & Isle of Wight Air Ambulance has been scrambled to a horse-related incident in the West Wight which has left a woman with a suspected broken leg.
It was shortly before 13:15 that the air ambulance’s dispatch desk was alerted to an incident unfolding in Freshwater, prompting the helicopter to lift off from its base at Thruxton, Andover.
The green and yellow chopper has landed in fields near to The Causeway, where flying medics are now tending to the injured woman alongside their blue light colleagues from the Isle of Wight Ambulance Service.
Island Echo understands a horse rider has sustained a suspected broken femur.
UPDATE @ 14:31 – The casualty has been conveyed to St Mary’s Hospital for further treatment.
Why the need to bring in the air ambulance if the casualty could be accessed by the ambulance service who were then able to take her to St Mary’s?
Because more often than not in remote locations the chopper is needed to locate the patient, and then the paramedic crew transports via stretcher to where the ambulance can get to. It would be a bit ridiculous to expect ground crew to keep walking round carrying bags, stretchers etc until they found the patient, no?
Too think what a wonderful service the
Air Ambulance is, yet try and get an
appointment at your local GP Surgery,
they fob you off to the 111 service.
What a shambles the NHS as become.