MMEA performs medical evacuation to take heart patient to hospital

Causes of atrial fibrillation include heart-related problems such as high blood pressure, coronary artery disease, heart failure, heart valve disease and heart surgery.

MERSING: The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) performed a medical evacuation (Medevac) to take a resident of Pulau Aur here, believed to have suffered from a heart attack, to seek urgent treatment at Mersing Hospital, on Friday (Oct 27).

Mersing Zone Maritime Commander director Suhaizan Saadin said the Mersing district health office requested assistance to take the victim, Baba Rahman, 55, to the hospital, after he was given initial treatment at the health clinic on the island.