A MAN was airlifted to hospital with head injuries following an incident at Carbonne Close on Sunday, August 14.

A Wales Air Ambulance helicopter flew to Monmouth in support of another from the Great Western Air Ambulance Service who attended to a critically injured man at the residential flats on the Link Road with police and a Welsh Ambulance Service vehicle also on the scene.

A Welsh Ambulance Service spokesperson said “We were called Sunday (14 August) at 2.07pm to reports of an incident on Carbonne Close, Monmouth. We sent one rapid response vehicle and an emergency ambulance to the scene.”

A call to the Wales Air Ambulance at 2.25pm saw a Cardiff-based helicopter arrive at the scene 20 minutes later at 2.45pm.

The Great Western Air Ambulance Service then arrived with a Specialist Paramedic in Critical Care and a Critical Care Doctor on board who treated the patient at the scene at 2.52pm and then conveyed him to the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff.

A spokesman for Wales Air Ambulance said that following critical care treatment at the scene, “and with support from our colleagues at Great Western Air Ambulance, a patient was airlifted to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. Our involvement concluded at 4.30pm”.

A spokesman for Gwent Police said: “We received a report of a medical emergency at around 2.50pm in Carbonne Close on Sunday 14 August after a man was found unresponsive in a shared residential property.

“Officers attended, along with paramedics from the Welsh Ambulance Service.

“A man was taken to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff by air ambulance for treatment of a head injury.

“Officers are currently following up lines of enquiry to establish the circumstances of the incident.”