Mokpo Coast Guard, Emergency Transport of Patients in Island Areas and at Sea

Using Patrol Vessels and Coastal Rescue Boats... Rapid Transfer to Large Hospitals

Mokpo Maritime Police Station (Chief Kim Hae-cheol) swiftly transported two emergency patients from island areas and the sea to the mainland.

According to Mokpo Maritime Police, at around 6:29 PM on the 25th, a report was received that student A (in his 20s), who was aboard the Korea Maritime University training ship near the southwest sea of Byeongpungdo, Jindo, was experiencing severe abdominal pain suspected to be appendicitis, and a patrol vessel was dispatched immediately.

Mokpo Coast Guard is providing emergency care to a patient.
[Photo by Mokpo Coast Guard Station]

The maritime police boarded the patient and guardian onto the patrol vessel, provided emergency treatment, and transferred them via a coastal rescue boat to the 119 ambulance team at Seomang Port, Jindo.

On the same day at 11:03 AM, a report was received that patient B (in his 80s), who was immobile and suffering from arrhythmia and hypertension, urgently needed transport from Jodo, Jindo County. The maritime police used a coastal rescue boat to transport the patient and guardian to the mainland.

Thanks to the maritime police's assistance, patients A and B who were urgently transported are known to be receiving treatment at a large hospital in Mokpo.

A Mokpo Maritime Police official stated, “We will do our best to swiftly transport emergency patients in need of help from island villages and the sea, which are medical blind spots.”

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