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Dedicated supporters who keep the charity’s doctors, dispatchers, pilots and paramedics responding to the most critically ill and seriously injured people across the region, 365 days a year, gathered on Thursday, May 9 to celebrate the enormous difference their support makes to lives across the region. Lives such as Dale Muffett, who spoke on the night about his experience of needing the life-saving skills of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance when he was hit by a car while out jogging in Portsmouth on New Year’s Day 2021. Dale needed an emergency pre-hospital blood transfusion, a surgical chest procedure (thoracostomy) to relieve pressure and reinflate his collapsed lung and was given an anaesthetic to be artificially ventilated.

Dale was seconds from dying and is now paralysed from the waist down. He said: “No one knows who is going to end up needing the air ambulance – today, tomorrow or the next day. It could be any one of us.



It’s such a vital service. And it’s not just myself who is eternally grateful, it’s my friends and family, too. We all just owe them so much.

” The audience also saw first-hand the vital role that teamwork plays between the air ambulance and road ambulance crews from South Central Ambulance Service, as the two organisations played out a realistic demonstration of their considered steps they take when treating a severely injured patient. Keith Wilson, director of income and engagement, said: “Our Evening of Celebration event g.

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