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Scotland: 90 years of air ambulance
Discussion on the future of the SAAS, considered expensive but essential
The Scottish Air Ambulance Service (Saas) celebrates its 90th anniversary: it all started on 14 May 1933. That day a telegram arrived at the St Andrews Ambulance Service; it was sent by the local doctor on the Isle of Islay, who requested a helicopter to carry out the medical transport of a seriously ill patient: it was the fisherman John McDermid, the first patient to board an air ambulance in Scotland. In...
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AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency