Southwater parents whose child was saved by children’s air ambulance back fundraising campaign

A Southwater couple has backed a new Children’s Air Ambulance initiative after the service helped save their child’s life.

Rachel and Jamie Stacey will forever be grateful to the charity which they credit with helping to save their son Alfie’s life when he needed specialist medical treatment in 2015.

The parents said: “Without the Children’s Air Ambulance our child may not be alive today.

“It’s a parent’s worst nightmare to be told that their child’s life is at risk but, as we know from first-hand experience, if they get the specialist care they need as quickly as possible there can be a happy outcome.”

The service is Great Britain’s only dedicated paediatric helicopter transfer for critically ill babies and children.