CareFlight’s Top End Rescue Helicopter has flown a woman to hospital in a stable condition after she suffered a severe reaction to a bite while she was on a fishing expedition from Leeders Creek Fishing Base.
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The retrieval of the fisherwoman took place immediately after the helicopter’s medical team attended a group of European backpackers whose car had rolled on the road near Tolmer Falls, Litchfield National Park.
CareFlight was called to the single vehicle accident shortly after 12.30pm yesterday, where Batchelor Medical Clinic staff were providing initial care to four passengers – two males and two females – one 19, the rest aged in their early 20s.
Operating the Top End Medical Retrieval Service on behalf of the Northern Territory Government, CareFlight medical staff helped Batchelor clinic staff assess the patients for minor injuries. Two were taken to Batchelor by clinic staff and the other two following in another private vehicle which was traveling with the group.
At 1.55pm, as the CareFlight helicopter was tasked to Leeders Creek Fishing Base, near Gunn Point, where a 25-year-old woman had suffered an anaphylactic reaction to a bite.
The woman was initially treated by St John Ambulance at the fishing base.
She had been out on a boat when she was stung and her fishing partner had returned her to the fishing base.
CareFlight’s doctor and nurse treated the woman at the scene and provided ongoing care as she was flown to Royal Darwin Hospital shortly before 4pm in a stable condition.
