Air ambulance which serves Bedfordshire to start transporting patients again

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."