A PARENT at Pembroke Dock Community School was airlifted to hospital following a medical emergency on Monday afternoon, July 17.

Wales Air Ambulance and the Welsh Ambulance Service were called to the school, on the town’s Bush Street, shortly after 3.10pm.

The woman, who is also a volunteer member of staff, was taken ill when she came to collect her child at the end of the school day. Emergency services, which were quickly at the scene, decided to call in the air ambulance to take the lady to hospital in Cardiff.

A Welsh Ambulance Service spokesman said: “We were called at approximately 3.10pm yesterday afternoon (Monday 17 July) to reports of a medical emergency at Pembroke Dock Community School, Pembroke Dock.

“A crew in an emergency ambulance and the Wales Air Ambulance at-tended and a woman was airlifted to the University Hospital of Wales in a serious condition.”