Mokpo Coast Guard Works Tirelessly to Transport Emergency Patients Including Island Residents and Crew Members

Four Emergency Patients Including Those from Island Village with Medical Blind Spots Transferred to Mainland

Mokpo Coast Guard is coordinating the transfer of an emergency patient at sea. Photo by Mokpo Coast Guard

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Chunsu] Four emergency patients from island areas cut off by sea routes and at sea were urgently transported to the mainland by the Coast Guard.

On the 16th, the Mokpo Coast Guard announced that at 8:22 p.m. on the 15th, they received a report that patient A (80) at a hospital located on Bigeumdo, Sinan-gun, was complaining of severe abdominal pain and needed to be transported to the mainland, and they immediately dispatched a coastal rescue boat from the police substation.

The Coast Guard boarded patient A and medical staff onto the coastal rescue boat at Sudae Dock on Bigeumdo, continuously monitored the patient's condition, and quickly moved to Namgang Dock on Amtaedo to transfer the patient to a hospital.

Earlier that day, at 3:16 a.m., the Coast Guard received a report that crew member B (30) on a fishing boat operating off Seogeochado, Jindo-gun, was complaining of severe chest pain, and transported him to the mainland using a patrol vessel.

At 10:44 a.m. and 2:03 p.m. on the same day, emergency patients C (70, male) with hypoglycemic shock symptoms and D (80, female) unable to move due to dizziness from Jodo, Jindo, were consecutively transported to the mainland via the police substation coastal rescue boat.

The four emergency patients transported with the help of the Coast Guard were each moved to hospitals located in Mokpo and Jindo, where they underwent detailed examinations and are currently receiving treatment.

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