CORNWALL Air Ambulance was tasked to 38 missions during March, helping 11 children, toddlers and babies.

The air ambulance flew a toddler to Derriford Hospital after she fell off her scooter in Holsworthy and hurt her leg. Another toddler was flown to Derriford from Launceston after convulsing.

After a toddler in Stratton with respiratory problems was flown to Derriford, the return to the airbase required night vision equipment.

Also conveyed to Derriford Hospital were a man with a significant hand injury, who was flown from Davidstow, and a patient injured in a fall, who was taken from Holsworthy.

Patients suffering from cardiac arrests were treated in Holsworthy, Launceston and Bude before being flown to hospital.

Elsewhere in Cornwall, a sick toddler in Newquay was flown to Royal Cornwall Hospital in five minutes, and a toddler suffering a severe asthma attack in Bodmin was flown to the same hospital in nine minutes.

A young boy in Par suffered a serious medical emergency and was flown to Royal Cornwall Hospital. Another young boy fell in Fowey, badly hurting his arm. He was flown to Royal Cornwall Hospital in eight minutes.

The paramedic aircrew treated an ill baby boy in Fraddon and a fitting child in Liskeard, but it proved more appropriate for them both to be driven to hospital by land ambulance.

The air ambulance also flew patients injured by falls to Derriford Hospital from Roche and Carlyon Bay.

A man with severe burns was flown from the air ambulance’s Newquay airbase to Derriford Hospital.

At Gribbin Head, a woman was stampeded by cows, sustaining severe injuries. Cornwall Air Ambulance flew her to Derriford Hospital in 15 minutes.

The air ambulance landed in Liskeard for a man with a collapsed lung who was flown to Derriford.

Patients suffering cardiac arrest were treated in Mawgan, St Austell and St Kew, before being flown to hospital.

The air ambulance treated and flew patients suffering other medical emergencies in Nanstallon, Calstock, St Merryn, Tintagel, Holsworthy and Lifton, before flying them to Royal Cornwall Hospital or Derriford Hospital.

During March Cornwall Air Ambulance took an average of 12 and a half minutes to reach patients, spent an average of 26 minutes treating patients on scene and took an average of 13 minutes to fly the patients from the emergency scene to hospital.

The paramedic aircrew reached five patients using Rapid Response Vehicles in March when the helicopter was grounded due to poor weather.

A young man riding a moped was blown off the road and sustained neck injuries at Rejerah.

A man in cardiac arrest in Newquay was driven to Royal Cornwall Hospital and two patients from St Columb were treated on scene for serious infection. Unusually, due to severe burns, a young man was driven to Derriford Hospital from St Columb.

Charitable donations alone pay the running costs of Cornwall Air Ambulance and the charity expressed its gratitude for the generosity of its supporters that enable the paramedics to help people in their hour of need.

For more information, please visit www.cornwallairambulance.org