'Significant restrictions' on emergency helicopter service on days when Air Corps not available
An internal Department of Defence briefing highlights the restrictions on where the Coast Guard helicopter can reach.
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An internal Department of Defence briefing highlights the restrictions on where the Coast Guard helicopter can reach.
Irish Community Rapid Response requires in the region of €400,000 to continue operating the air ambulance.
Charity-funded Irish Community Rapid Response is stepping in after the withdrawal of the Air Corps service.
The service will cost €2 million to run annually and is to be funded through community and donor contributions.
The charity is awaiting a formal announcement from the Minister for Health.
The service will cost €2 million to run annually.
Three companies applied to provide the service in a recent tendering process.
‘Priority 1′ transfers involve transporting patients by air to another country for emergency medical treatment.
The Irish Community Air Ambulance service is expected to go live from Cork Airport from next March.
It transferred a patient from Dublin to London.
It happened on the N5 in Roscommon at around 10am today.
The boy received serious injuries when he was hit by the car in Barryroe, about five miles from Clonakilty.
The helicopter’s rotor blades struck electrical wires while attempting to land in a field last July to collect a casualty.
Independent TD Denis Naughten said today that there is a need for the establishment of a national helicopter emergency service.
There were no fatalities or injuries in the incident and the patient who was in need of care was transferred to hospital by road.
The Emergency Aeromedical Service is a joint project between the HSE National Ambulance Service and the Irish Air Corps.
Patients and HSE teams were carried between Casement Aerodrome and locations in England and the Czech Republic.
A patient was transferred today from London to Dublin on an Air Corps jet.
Patients were transferred to hospitals in Dublin and London by Air Ambulance on Christmas Eve and St. Stephen’s Day.
The Government Learjet is deployed to London to return Meadhbh McGivern home after her liver transplant in London.
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AeroMedevac Ireland will begin a 24-hour service tomorrow, after newspaper reports that it was only able to operate during daylight.
At least those who need it most are getting off the ground – the Air Corps runs two air ambulances within an hour.