La Coast Guard of Naples he helped a Portuguese passenger on board the MSC SEASHORE which was leaving the port in the direction of Messina. The woman, 59 years old, had been struck by a cerebral stroke.
Yesterday evening, the operations room of the Maritime Directorate of Campania, under the orders of theAdmiral Inspector Peter Vella, received a distress call from the cruise ship saying they needed to perform a medical evacuation for a passenger who had suffered a stroke.
The CP SAR 890 patrol boat was immediately alerted and intervened, transporting the woman, accompanied by the ship's doctor, to the dock. Calata Porta di Massa of the port of Naples where an ambulance from 118 had arrived in the meantime.
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The episode – it is underlined in a note – "it adds to the numerous rescue and assistance interventions conducted in this summer period that has seen the joint deployment of multiple operational resources under the coordination of the Maritime Directorate of Naples, which can always count on the operational readiness of its own means and personnel under its command, as well as the diversified intervention capabilities within an effective, coordinated and branched rescue system along the entire Campania coast, and in general, throughout the national territory".
And precisely to avoid the occurrence of accidents at sea, the Maritime Director of Campania, Pietro Vella, remembers "to always maintain maximum attention when embarking on a voyage, to know the equipment and instruments on board and to know how to use them well, but above all to scrupulously respect all the regulations and prescriptions relating to navigation safety and underlying the precious safeguarding of human life at sea".
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