Air ambulance in Portsmouth after person suffers serious injuries falling down stairs

PARAMEDICS rushed to help a patient who had fallen down stairs at their home.

It happened yesterday in a home in Highbury Street, Old Portsmouth, at around 12.15pm on Friday.

A South Central Ambulance Service spokesman said: ‘The Hampshire & Isle of Wight Air Ambulance was one of a number of resources we sent to an emergency nearby where someone had fallen down the stairs at home and sustained serious injuries.

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‘They were then taken by road to the major trauma centre at University Hospital Southampton with the air ambulance team travelling with the patient.’

No further details were given.

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