Medical assistance on-board...
 

Prompted by a conservation with a friend, whose wife is a Senior Sister in an Accident & Emergency department...

On a flight earlier this year she helped out a patient who had fallen into a diabetic coma. The budget carrier were able to provide medical equipment in the form of one glove. Not very impressive.

Please tell me that other airlines try harder to keep passengers whom fall ill on a flight alive?

PS
She did not volunteer to receive a 'reward'. Which was just as well - as they only wanted her details for their insurance....

This was indeed a well known budget airline... not one based in the UK....

All BA aircraft carry:

Full medical kit including equipment and drugs for an assisting medical professional, child birth and splinting.

Defibrillator.

1 basic first aid kit in each galley.

Bag and mask.

Aspirator.

And, obviously, oxygen.

Have access to MedLink - A service where crew are able to talk to a doctor and medical staff on the ground about treatment and also get permission to administer certain drugs.