Highland Council's Raigmore facility is where the local authority, police, fire, ambulance service, coastguard and the military can come together to co-ordinate responses to disasters.

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And with the closest health facility some 30km (18 miles) away, Pitala village now has its own bicycle ambulance to ferry patients to hospital.

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Orekunrin and her family immediately began looking for an air ambulance service to rapidly transport the girl, a sickle cell anemia sufferer, to a more suitable healthcare facility.

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