Mercy flight: Fire and Rescue Dept airlifts four Orang Asli women to hospital


File picture of a Fire and Rescue Department helicopter landing at Pos Gob. - Photo: Bernama

GUA MUSANG: The Air Unit of the Malaysian Fire and Rescue Department conducted a medical evacuation (medevac) to send four pregnant Orang Asli women from Pos Gob, near here, to a hospital on Thursday (Feb 9).

The department's Subang air base public relations officer Mohd Hasrizal Kamaruzzaman said two flights via the Agusta Westland AW139 helicopter were conducted to carry the four women, who are in their full-term pregnancy.

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