Letter: Charge for use of air ambulance

Letter: I am sure that there are many folk in this county who are having serious doubts about the use of the air ambulance for minor injuries.

The latest report a woman who had a fractured ankle being airlifted to hospital beggars belief.

If this is what our collections are used to pay for then count me out.

If a serious road accident had taken place and this plane was not available a life so easily could have been lost.

There was also an ambulance attendance. Was it too much trouble to stretcher her out?

Serious questions need to be asked about the call centre sending out our ambulances to unnecessary calls.

Why are they not weeding out these people?

Crews are risking life and limb to attend these calls in less than 10 minutes only to find that somebody has cut his finger.

Who is in charge of this ridiculous situation? The free for all NHS must come to an end to stop this abuse.

A £50 charge should be made to any person calling an ambulance.

What a difference this would make to the crew's workload.

Overnight you would see people using their cars to get to hospital for minor matters.

Before all the protesters to this put pen to paper consider this. If your washing machine breaks down and you want a repair man it will cost you £60 as he walks through the door and that is for the first half hour, plus parts.

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