Updated: January 20, 2021, 3:46 pm
(Andrew Matthews/PA)
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A coastguard helicopter has been used to transfer a Covid-19 patient from the Isle of Wight to relieve pressure on the local hospital’s “stretched” intensive care unit.
A medical team from Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance (HIOWAA) flew to St Mary’s Hospital in Newport to meet the ventilated patient on Sunday, and transferred them to the search and rescue AW189 helicopter based at Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire.
The helicopter then flew the patient and medics to University Hospital Southampton.