US Coast Guard medevacs child from cruise ship
A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter hoisted a seven-year-old girl, a parent and a nurse from the Cruise Ship Celebrity Summit
A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter hoisted a seven-year-old girl, a parent and a nurse from the Cruise Ship Celebrity Summit Monday, on 8 July, from over 200 miles east of Virginia, medevacing her to Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters in Norfolk. The cruise ship contacted the Coast Guard to request assistance with a girl who was experiencing abdominal pain while enroute from New Jersey to Bermuda.
Video by Petty Officer 1st Class Andrew Kendrick
US Coast Guard District 5
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Mandy Langfield
Mandy Langfield is a Director of Palladium Media Partners and former Publishing Director at Voyageur Group. She has written extensively on international travel and health insurance, medical assistance provision, and air medical transportation. She was Editor of AirMed&Rescue from December 2017 until April 2021. Her favourite helicopter is the Chinook, having grown up near an RAF training ground.