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GNAAS seeks donations to provide 24/7 service
The Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) is looking to provide a 24/7 service in the North East and is seeking help to raise the additional £310,000 needed.
Doctors and paramedics in the region say that the money will enable them to reach hundreds more severely ill and injured people in the region every year.
In partnership with the North East Ambulance Service, GNAAS started providing a rapid response car service in 2015, staffed with a doctor and paramedic on Friday and Saturday nights. This was expanded last year to include Thursday and Sunday nights. The service responded to 524 call-outs in the last financial year in its present four-day form. These call-outs included 140 assaults, 98 road traffic incidents, and 95 cardiac arrest.
However, the charity has launched its Critical Care 24/7 Appeal, asking the public to help raise the additional funding required to activate its team every hour of every day if needed.
Jamie Walsh, GNAAS paramedic, said: “Four nights is not enough. We want to be there for even more people. We want to be able to help 24 hours a day, seven days a week and for you to know that the time of day, or day of the week does not determine the level of care you receive in a life-threatening situation.”
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