A 57-YEAR-OLD woman was put into a medically induced coma after falling at home in Whitehaven.

The Great North Air Ambulance Service was called to Hensingham at around 2.45pm yesterday, where the woman had suffered a serious head injury.

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The doctor-led trauma team anaesthetised the woman and gave her a blood transfusion.

She was then airlifted to Royal Preston Hospital where she arrived in a serious but stable condition.