News / Four medivacs
SHETLAND coastguard organised four medical evacuations on a busy Sunday for the emergency service.
The day began with a call out to the Forties Delta platform 140 miles south east of Sumburgh where Rescue 102 collected a sick oil worker and flew him to Sumburgh from where he was taken to the Gilbert Bain Hospital by ambulance.
A quarter of an hour after that call came in, the Lerwick station was arranging a council ferry to transport patient to hospital from Unst.
Then at 2.10pm a similar incident was coordinated for a patient from Yell.
Finally at 5.45pm Rescue 102 was back in the air again to fly to the Dunbar platform 100 miles north east of Sumburgh to pick up an injured crewman.
He was flown to the Clickimin landing site in Lerwick from where he was taken by ambulance to hospital.
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