The Ministry of Health early this morning medevaced, via Roraima Airways, Alliance For Change (AFC) Chairman, Nigel Hughes from Aishalton, Region 9 after he suffered cardiac arrest. He was taken to the Caribbean Heart Institute at the Georgetown Hospital.
GINA said that as soon as Minister of Health, Dr. Bheri Ramsaran heard of the incident yesterday, he mobilised a regional health team from Region 9 to travel to the Marudi Mountains where Hughes was holding meetings.
Hughes was then taken to Aishalton, the nearest place from which he could have been airlifted to the city, GINA said. A team from the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation travelled to Aishalton with the plane where they monitored him during the night and returned with him on the flight.
GINA said that the medevac is a Ministry of Health initiative in collaboration with Commodore Gary Best of the Guyana Defence Force and Roraima Airways.
Chairman of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Nigel Hughes being assisted out of a Roraima Airways aircraft with which he was airlifted from Aishalton, Region 9. (GINA photo)