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A cruise ship passenger was airlifted to the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) by the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) on Friday (Dec 26).<\/p>\n
The RSAF’s search-and-rescue unit Rescue 10 was activated on Friday morning to evacuate a passenger onboard a cruise ship who required urgent medical attention, the RSAF said in a Facebook post at 1.14pm on the same day.<\/p>\n
“The patient was safely evacuated to SGH for treatment and was reported to be conscious and in a stable condition,” the post read.<\/p>\n
The rescue was coordinated by the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre under the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore.\u00a0<\/p>\n
RSAF maintains a 24\/7 unit, callsign Rescue 10, to respond to life-saving missions at short notice.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They are often scrambled to evacuate personnel who require immediate medical attention to hospitals, including from onboard civilian vessels in the vicinity of Singapore.<\/p>\n