A 47 year-old fisherman was rescued by Vietnamese fisheries surveillance force after he fell ill while aboard a boat in the afternoon of Monday.

The Vietnamese fisheries surveillance force on ship KN-360 received an emergency call at around 4.00pm from fishing boat QB 98188 TS from Quang Binh Province’s Ba Don Town with 8 people onboard off the Da Nang coast, notifying them one of their crewmen had have a bad asthma attack.

Twenty minutes later, the ship KN-360 reached the fishing boat, and the ill fisherman was, then, transferred to the ship for initial first aid.

After that, the fishing boat QB 98188 TS returned to the mainland to take the victim to a hospital in Da Nang for further treatment.

By HOANG DIEU - Translated by MAI DUNG