Navy brings ill fishermen ashore for immediate treatment
 

The Fast Attack Craft P 439 attached to the Eastern Naval Command brought an ill fisherman aboard a multi-day fishing trawler to ashore for immediate treatment today (13^th August).

On receipt of information from the Trincomalee Fisheries Inspector, the Navy dispatched the Fast Attack Craft to retrieve the patient who was vomiting blood. He had left for fishing practices from the Cod-bay fisheries harbour on 04^th July aboard ‘Roshan Putha I’ multi day fishing trawler.

Accordingly, the patient was carefully transferred to the Fast Attack Craft about 90 nautical miles off the Foul Point, Trincomalee. After taking the fisherman to the Naval Dockyard, he was rushed to the General Hospital of Trincomalee for further treatment.