Enter UK children’s air ambulance charity Lia’s Wings. It arranged a Skycare Repatriation PC-12 air ambulance to fly Rio from nearby Newquay Airport to London, and coordinated land coordinated land ambulance transfers.
“Many of the families we support are facing one of the most traumatic moments of their lives. They need reassurance that they are not alone, that we understand what they are going through, and that we have helped many others through similar situations,” says Charlotte Young, chief operations officer at Lia’s Wings.
The charity has previously focused on domestic transfers for specialist medical treatment, but repatriations back to the UK are becoming more common. The challenges of coping with a sick child while far from home place additional stress on families.
