On arrival, the patient was immediately shifted to a nearby hospital, and at present, the patient's condition is stable and he is under observation.
The Coast Guard said on Tuesday, 7 May, that it has successfully coordinated the medical evacuation of a critically ill fisherman off the Kerala coast. It intervened in the evacuation after the officials of the Fisheries department raised a medical distress to the Maritime Rescue sub-centre, Beypore, regarding a fisherman’s drowning from a boat, a Defence release said in Kochi.