Mokpo Coast Guard Urgently Transfers Two Foreign Crew Members in Emergency

Rescue Forces Dispatched to Waters Near Hongdo, Sinan-gun

Mokpo Maritime Police Station (Chief Kwon Oh-seong) urgently transported emergency patients from the sea to the land at dawn.

According to Mokpo Maritime Police, at around 6:06 a.m. on the 9th, a report was received that crew member B (Vietnamese, male, in his 30s) and crew member C (Vietnamese, in his 30s) of vessel A (153 tons, registered in Incheon, 13 crew members) suffered a right ankle fracture and an elbow contusion respectively while working near Hongdo, Sinan County. Rescue forces were immediately dispatched to the scene.

Mokpo Coast Guard is providing emergency care to a patient who experienced a medical emergency at sea.
[Photo by Mokpo Coast Guard]

The maritime police used a patrol vessel to transfer the two patients to a coastal rescue boat, and at around 10:44 a.m., they were promptly handed over to the 119 ambulance team at Namgang Dock, Amtae-myeon, Sinan County.

The two patients transported to land by the maritime police are reported to have received treatment at a large hospital located in Mokpo.

Over the past year, Mokpo Maritime Police has taken the lead in protecting the lives of patients in medical blind spots by transporting 316 emergency patients from islands and the sea to the land using patrol vessels.

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