Health workers carry patient to lifesaving treatment after landslides block road
Health workers carry patient to lifesaving treatment after landslides block road
2025-08-06
Southern Taiwan is continuing to be pummeled by rain. Many roads in Kaohsiung’s Namasia District have become impassable, and the village of Takanua has become a practical island. During a telemedicine checkup, a doctor determined that her patient in the village had a gastrointestinal emergency that needed immediate attention. But the roads were blocked, and with the rain showing no signs of abating, it was impossible to send a helicopter. All that was left was for Kaohsiung’s Veterans General Hospital to send a team to carry the patient to the ambulance.
A group of medical workers and helpers push a stretcher through the rain, relying on their own two feet to avoid fallen rocks and debris along a road in Kaohsiung’s Namasia District.
After days of torrential rain, the roads are impassable. Even Minsheng Bridge has been submerged by a swollen river, the road torn apart. A patient required urgent medical treatment, but the only solution was to go by foot, passing him along in a kind of relay.
Voice of Yang Li-chuan
Namasia health division director
There was a patient with acute appendicitis. We applied for an emergency airlift, but since the water level had risen above Minsheng Bridge, vehicles couldn’t pass, and the weather was too bad for a helicopter. It became like an isolated island.
A team from Kaohsiung’s Veterans General Hospital set out for Takanua Village, but after days of rain, the area had suddenly become like an island. The patient had been experiencing abdominal pain for days that didn’t respond to medication. After a telemedicine checkup, his doctor suspected it was acute appendicitis that required urgent medical attention. The team made their way up the mountain and brought the patient down on foot.
Voice of Yang Li-chuan
Namasia health division director
For a distance of about 50 meters, the stretcher was brought down from the ambulance and the patient was placed onto it. Four people pushed him over. There were rocks falling around them the entire time.
This entire operation demonstrates how to respond to a medical emergency in a remote area. Braving the elements, the medical team, local leaders, and police all worked side by side to bring the patient down the mountain and into the arms of lifesaving care.
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雨斷那瑪夏道路! 醫護搭"人力救命橋" 送急症患者就醫
2025-08-06
南部地區連日下大雨，高雄市那瑪夏區多處交通中斷，達卡努瓦里瞬間變成"孤島"，有民眾疑似腸胃道急症風險，醫師遠距視訊研判急需就診，但這裡交通癱瘓，天候惡劣，也不適合派遣直升機升降，高雄榮民總醫院只好以"人力接力"的方式搭起"救命橋"，將民眾緊急送到醫院治療。
多名醫護人員、工作人員，扛著擔架，冒著風雨，以人力徒步的方式，走在高雄那瑪夏山區道路，沿路落石坍方，萬分危險。
連日豪大雨，交通阻斷，就連的民生大橋，也遭溪水暴漲猛烈沖刷，路面斷裂，有患者急需外出就診，急迫時刻，只以"人力接力"方式搭起"救命橋"。
[[聲源:那瑪夏區衛生所組長楊麗娟]]
“有一個急性盲腸炎的病人，有申請這個所謂的空中轉診，但是因為民生大橋溪水越過橋面，沒有辦法通行，天氣不佳直升機沒有辦法起飛，那邊就是變成一個孤島”
高雄榮民總醫院團隊，挺進高雄市那瑪夏達卡努瓦里，受到連日大雨影響，這裡交通阻斷，瞬間變成"孤島"，但有位民眾腹部疼痛多天，藥物治療遲遲未改善，經過高雄榮總醫師遠距視訊研判，疑似急性盲腸炎，極需趕緊送醫，醫療團隊挺進山區，用人力順利送患者就醫。
[[聲源:那瑪夏區衛生所組長 楊麗娟]]
“距離差不多50公尺的時候，就趕快請救護車把擔架拿出來，把這個病患搬到擔架上面，4個人用擔架推過去。在推的時候，就是都會有小石頭就是會掉下來”
這場行動，凸顯偏鄉災難就醫如何應變，醫療團隊、區長、員警並肩作戰，完成翻山越嶺、無懼風雨的生命接力。
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