Sick man airlifted from cruise ship off Perth
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A man is in a stable condition after being winched from the deck of a cruise liner and taken to a Perth hospital by a Navy helicopter.
The Royal Australian Navy frigate HMAS Toowoomba was conducting training in the early hours of Saturday morning near Fremantle when it received an urgent call from a nearby cruise ship to transport an ill passenger ashore.
The Toowoomba’s Seahawk helicopter was dispatched at first light but had difficulty accessing the passenger because the liner did not have a landing pad.
The patient was eventually winched off the ship deck and into the helicopter.
He was treated for abdominal pain by a doctor on board the aircraft while being taken to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital.
Topics: navy, maritime, perth-6000, fremantle-6160
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