News / Medivacs
SHETLAND Coastguard coordinated three medical evacuations on Sunday.
The search and rescue 102 helicopter was called out at 5.20am to the Thistle Alpha platform, 105 miles northeast of Sumburgh, to airlift a man in need of medical attention.
The chopper landed at the Clickimin landing site, in Lerwick, at quarter past eight. The man was taken to the Gilbert Bain Hospital by a waiting ambulance.
Two hours later the helicopter was called out again, this time to go to the Tern Alpha platform, also in the East Shetland Basin.
They arrived back with the casualty at the Clickimin landing site at 12.30.
Shetland Coastguard also organised the Yell Sound ferry to take a person in need of medical attention to the Shetland mainland, in the early hours of Sunday.
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