Midlands Air Ambulance create exhibition highlighting evolution of its life-saving service over decades
The Mission Critical display has been launched to mark its 35th anniversary
A charity providing pre-hospital critical care across the Midlands has created an exhibition showing how their work's evolved since it launched back in the 1990s and the difference it makes.
The Midlands Air Ambulance have designed Mission Critical to mark its 35th anniversary, which uses photographs to demonstrate how its clinical capabilities and innovations have grown over time as well as including personal testimonies from those it has supported.
It hopes through this it will "shine a spotlight on the vital, lifesaving service it delivers across the region", and how it has developed since its first mission back in May 1991.
On the launch, the charity's innovation and development manager Charley Burke said: "We've had incredible support from past patients as part of this exhibition and we're featuring a number of individuals who have had life-changing experiences that have been made slightly better as a result of Midlands Air Ambulance's intervention.
"Over the 35 years that we've been in operation we've grown into one of the UK's busiest and most established air ambulance operations, operating a 24-7 service.
"The exhibition itself highlights the evolution that we've been through that showcases the clinical excellence and how we've grown through those 35 years to make our service so vital to people when they need us most."
The exhibition was officially unveiled in Birmingham's Chamberlain Square on Friday (10 April).
It's set to stay on show in its current location until 7pm this evening (12 April) and is planned to feature at several events throughout the rest of the year.