YOUNGSTERS helped to launch a new helicopter service for seriously ill children and babies.
The children’s air ambulance will take young patients and expert medical teams from local hospitals to specialist units around the country when it takes to the skies later this year.
This will help them to get the best care as quickly as possible
Around 200 children at The Kings Junior School on Wrexham Road have been hard at work making their own children’s air ambulances.
They flew their tiny paper helicopters as part of a national launch of the project.
The new nationally coordinated service will be based at Coventry Airport.
A flight in the helicopter could take a sick child to the centre of London from Chester in just 60 minutes.
The same journey by road would take more than three and a half hours even without traffic delays, the project points out.
“We will fly into action to help families when they need us most,” said fundraising manager David Reeves.
The children’s air ambulance plans to beat a world record for the most paper aircraft flown simultaneously towards the end of the year.
