SCAA crew go island hopping

Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance (SCAA) continues to provide a lifeline to the islands with flights to Mull and Arran featuring on the past week’s mission log.

A woman required an urgent transfer to mainland hospital care after a fall on Mull.

SCAA quickly flew her to Crosshouse Hospital at Kilmarnock, saving a lengthy road and ferry alternative journey.

The same speed and comfort was brought to bear when an urgent transfer request took the crew to Arran - again airlifting a patient to Crosshouse Hospital on the mainland for advanced care.

SCAA paramedics flew to assist at the scene of a serious road traffic collision near St Cyrus in Angus, working with colleagues from the Scottish Ambulance Service and Police Scotland.

The charity’s rapid response vehicle has also been in action during the past week, attending emergencies in Blairgowrie and Perth.

Although the RRV does not transport patients, it allows SCAA paramedics to reach the scene of local emergencies as quickly as possible.

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Altruistic avians in Pitlochry continue to support SCAA through an innovative‘Eggs For Flights’fundraiser devised by a Pitlochry chicken keeper.

The charity’s feathered friends have laid and sold another £10 worth of eggs, bringing their total to date to a cracking £102.50.

Staff in Perth and Kinross Council’s IT service have also been fundraising for SCAA and donated £100.

A Scone couple kindly asked friends and family to make a donation to SCAA in lieu of presents for their recent diamond wedding celebrations, raising £100.

Thanks also to Atholl and Breadalbane Ploughing Society members who dug up a £25 donation for the life-saving service.

And a Blairgowrie supporter donated a further £40 this week to support the air ambulance operations.

Bereaved families continue to show their support for the work SCAA does across the whole of Scotland by donating funeral collections to the charity.

The past week has seen the family of a Perth gentleman donate £376.90 in this way.

Perthshire woman Tess Monteith continues to give talks about the Silk Road cycle she and her daughter undertook in aid of SCAA. She has donated £25 from her latest presentation.

A talk by a SCAA volunteer on the work of the charity resulted in the Perth Inner Link audience collecting and donating £116.70.

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If you are interested in organising a fundraiser for Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance, please contact the team by email on fundraising@scaa.org.uk or by phone on 0300 123 1111.

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