JOHOR BARU: Fire and rescue personnel took more than two hours to transfer an ailing man weighing over 200kg from his bed on the third floor of a low-cost flat here into an ambulance.
Skudai Fire and Rescue chief Saifulbahri Safar said that they received a call at 11.49pm on Wednesday (June 18) and arrived at the flat at about 11.56pm located 5km away from the station.
With a weight of more than 200kg, the 46-year-old man was said to have been suffering from breathing difficulties and asthmatic problems.
“Our men transferred him from the bed to the portable stretcher before carrying him to the waiting ambulance,’’ Saifulbahri said in a statement on Thursday (June 19).
The man was sent to Sultanah Aminah Hospital.
The operation led by senior officer II Faisal Ismail and 10 firemen from the Skudai Fire station with one fire rapid tender vehicle and an emergency medical response service (EMRS) vehicle ended at about 1.21am.