Throughout the West Midlands, volunteers equipped with emergency 4x4 vehicles supported the ambulance service by handling patient transfers and collecting essential NHS staff. Across the countryĪs snow levels deepen, British Red Cross emergency teams have been responding across the UK – including Wales, Cheshire, Derbyshire, Devon and Cornwall. In Edinburgh and the Lothians, crews helped transport patients between their homes and hospitals – and in one case braved heavy snowfalls to take a patient home to Perthshire. Provided to YouTube by Ultra Music Emergency SOFI TUKKER Novak YAX.X Emergency Sofi Tukker, LLC / Armada Music B.V. In recent days, more than four times as many wheelchairs as normal have been given out.Įlsewhere in Glasgow, emergency response vehicles answered several distress calls and ferried non-urgent patients to hospitals and clinics for treatment. © InfoThroughout Glasgow and the West of Scotland, the Red Cross’ medical equipment service has been inundated with wheelchair requests from people who have fallen and broken their hips, legs and ankles on the snow and ice. The Emory School of Medicine's EM Residency Program and Morehouse School of Medicine are the inaugural winners of the 2021 ACGME Diversity and Inclusion Award. The crew towed the car to a nearby garage, then took the elderly woman and her son home before continuing their journey to Aberdeen.īy yesterday afternoon, 25 emergency response volunteers and five members of staff in the North of Scotland – equipped with nine 4x4 vehicles – had answered 34 calls for help. Emory Emergency Medicine is a diverse and inclusive team that embraces equity and inclusion as cornerstones of the Department.
One Red Cross ambulance team, which was ferrying a patient to hospital in Aberdeen, came across a stranded motorist and his 87-year-old mother near Nairn whose car had skidded off the road in heavy snow. © InfoHe added: “We also had to dig through four feet of snow to release one of our carers and their client after they were trapped by an avalanche that fell from the roof.” On one occasion we had to drive across a field to reach a patient whose home was so cut off, we’d considered sledging him out.” Ian Rideout, operations director, said: “The conditions are unprecedented, there’s been no let up in the weather and some back roads are all but impassable. Scores of volunteers and staff have mounted a huge response across the country – from the Highlands through the central belt and down to the Borders – as Scots struggle to cope with the worst winter weather for years.Įmergency response teams in the North of Scotland, using specially equipped 4x4 vehicles, have been battling through snow more than two feet deep to reach people in need of help. “What is unprecedented is that a person feels sick and … 21 people jump onto the airstrip and start running around, because that puts air traffic in jeopardy.© InfoAs heavy snows continue to fall, emergency response teams are braving hazardous conditions and working round the clock to help snowbound communities throughout Scotland.
“All fronts (for the investigation) are open at this moment and there is no information that allow us to affirm that it is act of unauthorized immigration carried out in a plot,” Calvo said. Investigators are considering the hypothesis that the passenger who provoked the emergency landing was not actually ill. Police are still looking for 12 more on the loose. Those included nine who illegally left the plane, the person who was said to be sick, the person’s companion, and a person who was arrested for fighting with an official on the plane. On landing, 21 people forced their way off the plane, prompting security officials to temporarily close the airport.Ī government official on the Balearic Islands, Aina Calvo, said 12 people had been detained by police and were in custody. The incident under investigation occurred late Friday when an Air Arabia flight from Casablanca to Istanbul made an emergency landing to attend a passenger. PALMA, Balearic Islands (AP) - Spanish authorities on Saturday were investigating the unauthorized disembarkment of 21 people from a plane that made an emergency medical landing on the island of Mallorca.
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