A Thai crew member on the Thailand-flagged NORDANA MALEE cargo ship was rescued 355 miles off the coast of Da Nang very early on Sunday morning.

Rescuers and doctors from the Da Nang-based Maritime Co-ordination and Rescue Centre No2 give first aid to a sailor on a Thai cargo ship off the coast of Da Nang on January 26. Photo courtesy MRCC2

The Da Nang-based Maritime Co-ordination and Rescue Centre No 2 (MRCC2) said the Thai sailor, Chatuporn Arttama, 44, became paralysed on his right side while the ship was travelling from Busan, Korea to HCM City around noon of last Saturday.

 

A ship from MCRR2 and a team of doctors was dispatched to help the sailor at 1.20pm last Saturday, and it found the cargo ship at 1.40am on Sunday.

 

The doctors gave the victim first aid before taking him to Da Nang at 2pm on Sunday.

 

Arttama, who was in a coma on board, was taken to the city-based Public Security hospital No 199 in Da Nang, where he is undergoing further treatment.

 

(Source: VNS/ DA NANG Today)