Almaty. 1st of January. KazTAG - Kazakhstani Savory-border guards saved the Turkish citizen, the press service of the National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan reports.
"On December 31, in difficult weather-climatic conditions, the crew of the Border Ship" Sarbaz "of the Aktau division of border ships and boats of the KNB border service department under the Mangystau region under the command of the captain of the third rank Akhmetchan A.K. He conducted an operation to save a citizen of Turkey from the ferry "Academician Hasan Aliyev" of the Republic of Azerbaijan in the area of the Kenderlin Bay, "the reports in the message on Friday.
As clarified, the SOS's help signal came from the commander of the Azerbaijani ship on the radio. Azerbaijan's consular service in Aktau confirmed the fact of a critical situation. The patient's condition was estimated as severe, a preliminary diagnosis was made acute appendicitis.
"Sea border guards, having received a message, immediately moved towards the ferry, while moving the wave of more than 2 m and strong oncoming wind. For four o'clock, the crew of the border ship could not be moored to the ship and pick up the patient. The commander of the ship was adopted a risky decision to reboot the patient on the Sarbaz border boat on the side boat. In connection with the remoteness of hydraulic structures and the impossibility of mooring in the port of Kuryk, the crew of the onboard boat led by Lieutenant Iquatov Zh.zh. Together with the patient, the passenger was forced to take a non-standard decision on nomination along the shortest path and access to unequipped coast, "the press service writes.
It is noted that this task in the storm conditions crew crew was performed within an hour. On the bank of the patient, the servicemen of the Border Department "Kendereli" and emergency medical care doctors were already waiting. In total, the rescue operation lasted over six hours.
"In the city hospital of the city of Zhanaozen, the patient was diagnosed with perforative ulcer of the stomach, and an urgent operation was carried out. Thanks to the skillful and decisive actions of border guards rendered to medical care, the life of a foreign citizen was saved, "they told in the KNB.
It is also reported that the consulate of Azerbaijan expressed gratitude to Kazakhstan border guards for timely and skillful actions and the salvation of the passenger.