Its first high-profile callout saw Conor McMullan, then 11, taken to hospital with a serious head fracture after an accident on his family farm
Northern Ireland’s air ambulance service has been used 3,000 times since it was officially launched in 2017.
It is operated by a partnership between the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service and the Air Ambulance Northern Ireland charity..Of the 3,080 missions completed, almost a quarter were for serious road crashes, 22% for medical emergencies, 19% for falls, 10% for agricultural accidents and workplace incidents, 8% for sport and leisure, 4% for deliberate self harm and 3% for drowning and burns.
“Today provides me with an opportunity to thank all those involved in the delivery of the service, including NIAS control staff, NIAS operational staff, the medics in the HEMS team and the pilot, without whose expertise many of these calls could not be reached.” Charity chairman Dr Gerard O’Hare said as well as the clinical provision provided by NIAS, it takes £2 million each year in fundraising to sustain the HEMS, and costs are rising.
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