Child airlifted to hospital

A toddler was choppered to hospital late on Saturday from a remote location in Marlborough. Nelson Marlborough Rescue Helicopter duty pilot Dion Edgar said the 2-year-old boy from Mills Bay in Kenepuru Sound was taken to Wairau Hospital in Blenheim at around 11pm. Edgar said he was carried into hospital by his grandmother. ‘‘He was all right, he just needed a bit of help,’’ Edgar said. ‘‘It was more being in the remote area that they’re in, being more cautious. There’s no ambulance access out there – it would have been hours and hours if they’d tried to take him out by road.’’