Fisherman airlifted to Cape Town hospital
A Peruvian, who suffered a suspected heart attack, was airlifted from a vessel off the Northern Cape coast to a Cape Town hospital at the weekend.
Oliverth Alfaro Rodrigues, 35, was plucked from the fishing vessel Maral, 50 nautical miles off Kleinsee on Saturday.
Bruce Bodmer, the National Sea Rescue Institute's (NSRI) air rescue station commander, said Rodrigues was hoisted in a stretcher on to the SA Air Force Oryx helicopter after he was stabilised aboard the vessel.
He was also treated on the way back to Ysterplaat Air Force Base, from where an ambulance transported him to the Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital.
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NSRI to rescue sick fisherman
A Peruvian fisherman suspected to be suffering from a heart attack would be airlifted from a vessel off the Northern Cape coast on Saturday morning, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) said.
The 35-year-old man, suffering myocardial infarction symptoms, would be plucked from the 27-metre vessel Maral, 50 nautical miles out to sea off Kleinsee, said NSRI spokesperson Craig Lambinon.
The vessel called for medical assistance on Friday while fishing in deep seas off Namibia and beyond the range of a medical evacuation.
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