A WATTISHAM air crew has been scrambled to transfer a baby which needed specialist treatment. A RAF search and rescue Sea king Helicopter from B flight left the Suffolk airfield at 10pm last night.
A WATTISHAM air crew has been scrambled to transfer a baby which needed specialist treatment.
A RAF search and rescue Sea king Helicopter from B flight left the Suffolk airfield at 10pm yesterday.
A spokesman said the transfer from Woolwich Hospital in London to Leicester Glenfield Hospital was a routine manoeuvre.
He said: “The baby needed ECMO (Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation). We were airborne at 10pm and returned at 1am today.”
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