International Business Times
LONDON — London is to have no air ambulance for the next three weeks as the capital’s one and only emergencyhelicopter is going in for maintenance.
It might be surprising considering London is one of the most affluent cities in the world, but there is only one air ambulance for reaching critically injured patients that covers the capital’s population of nearly nine million people, who are living and working within the M25 (a 600 square mile radius).
The London’s Air Ambulance charity runs a 24/7 advanced trauma care service that includes a helicopter flown by two pilots during daylight hours based on the roof of Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, as well as rapid response cars that work by night.
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