A sick crew member of fishing boat QNa 94464 TS from Quang Nam Province was safely brought back to the mainland for treatment on Wednesday morning.

Giving initial first aid to the injured fisherman

At 3.24pm on Tuesday, 43-year-old Nguyen Thanh Binh was reported to be in critical condition with a severe pain, high fever, and narcosis, whilst his vessel was fishing in Viet Nam’s waters, about 100 nautical miles east off the Quy Nhon coast.

After receiving an SOS message from the boat’s captain, the Viet Nam Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (Viet Nam MRCC) immediately asked the fishing boat to return to the mainland at a maximum speed, and helped the boat’s crew members to contact doctors from the Da Nang Emergency Centre 115 to ask for first aid instructions.

According to the diagnosis by mainland doctors, the sick fisherman was able to have acute appendicitis.

At 4.48pm on the same day, the Viet Nam MRCC asked the Da Nang MRCC to immediately send out its rescue ship SAR 412, carrying doctors from the city’s Emergency Centre 115, to help the victim. SAR 412 reached the fishing boat, and the sick fisherman was, then, transferred to the rescue ship for initial first aid.

At around 8.50am on Wednesday, the victim was safely brought to Quy Nhon City, Binh Dinh Province, for further treatment.