PANO – The Navy Service dispatched a DHC-6 aircraft coded VNT-772 of Brigade 954 to Truong Sa Island of the Truong Sa (Spratly) Archipelago of Vietnam on August 13 to transport patient Phung Ba Hung ashore for further treatment.

Earlier, at 10.30 August 13, the clinic of the island hospitalized Nguyen Ba Hung, worker of ACC-245 Company, who had fallen into the sea and hit his head on the rock. The patient fainted at times, with negative clinical symptoms such as vomiting, high blood pressure, high pulse rate. By 10.00 August 12, the patient’s health condition worsened and the Navy Service decided to send a DHC-6 aircraft to the island to transport him ashore for further treatment.

Getting the patient on board

The flight was carried out in bad weather condition, but the crew could manage to fly at lower altitude and reached Tan Son Nhat Airport after 3 hours 10 minutes. As soon as the aircraft touched the land, the patient was transferred to Military Hospital 175 for treatment.

* On August 14, ship SAR 274 of the Maritime Rescue Coordination Center Region 2 (Da Nang MRCC) shipped a foreign sailor ashore for emergency medical treatment.

Earlier, on late August 13, the center was informed that Singaporean sailor Lew Sze Kai (born 1977) on board SAM YOUNG ship (Cook Island) contracted acute skin infection. The ship requested to send the patient to Da Nang city for immediate treatment.

Ship SAR 274 with a medical team from the Center for Medical Emergency of Da Nang city on board was dispatched to the scene and the patient was provided with initial medical care before being transported ashore for further treatment.

Translated by Huu Duong