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Contact usLife-saving new flight routes are in the works to enable "otherwise impossible" missions for the Otago regional rescue helicopter service, thanks to funding from the Otago Service Clubs Medical Trust (OSCMT).
+ Read moreTwenty years after an accident that left him without the use of his legs, Dunedin man Rob Gillan tells Wyatt Ryder about his life in a wheelchair, his struggles with depression and how international darts tournaments have helped him get through.
+ Read moreIt is hard to find the words to thank someone for saving your life. For Barry Johnston, of Wanaka, actions could speak louder.
+ Read moreThis year’s Waianakarua and Waiareka Valley Lions Clubs winter crop competition has raised a record-breaking $68,000 — $47,000 for the Otago Regional Rescue Helicopter Trust and $21,000 for St John Oamaru.
+ Read moreIt’s full steam ahead for an exhibition opening on Saturday at Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery in Alexandra. We Drove Here will uncover how pioneering developments in motoring transformed social interaction.
+ Read more"It would be nice to think we have made a little bit of a difference" That was the typically low-key way Graeme Gale described his life-saving air ambulance and conservation work.
+ Read moreA new chest compression machine could be the difference between life and death, at the scenes of accidents, in the South. The Otago Rescue Helicopter Trust has acquired a German-built, mechanical, CPR device to take over the exhausting task of performing CPR.
+ Read moreThe Otago Rescue Helicopter Trust (ORHT) has benefited from $8000 in funds raised by the Valley Roar.
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