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Dear Steve,

Thank you once more for taking the time to read Flight Report. In November, fourteen children flew on the Starship National Air Ambulance Service.

Thirteen of those children made it to Starship’s Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) thanks to you. There, those critically ill or injured children received specialist care they couldn’t have got anywhere else.

And thanks to your support, we flew a child to a hospital closer to their home. There, they received care closer to their whānau, allowing their family to take tentative steps towards life back in their own community.

Patient update: Jordan

Napier 2-year-old Jordan took his second flight to Starship during the winter RSV outbreak. After being born at just 27 weeks, Jordan’s lungs weren’t properly developed. This leaves him vulnerable to respiratory conditions, and after taking a turn for the worse at Hawkes Bay Hospital, he needed Starship again. Thanks to you, he made it there. After a short stint in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and on the wards, Jordan was well enough to go home again.

Mum Tammi is grateful for people like you helped her little boy get to Starship. And she’s also relieved at the prospect of a regular old Christmas at home.

Our plan is to get the whole family together, have some fun time with the kids, and create some family memories, she says. That, and eating too much kai of course!

A wonderfully regular Christmas at home, in other words. Thanks in part to people like you.

As the year draws to a close, thank you so much for your support in 2021. We’ve achieved so much this year thanks to the kind, generous support of people like you. I can’t wait to share exciting stories and updates with you in the new year.

Ngā mihi nui, and have a very merry Christmas.

Adrienne Tollemache
Donor Care Manager, Starship Foundation