A seriously injured teenager was flown to Mackay Base Hospital last week, after suffering serious abdominal, leg and pelvic fractures following a dirt bike accident on a remote cattle station.
The 17-year-old had to be evacuated by the RACQ CQ Rescue Helicopter which involved an epic 7.5-hour mission from Mackay to the remote property at Mistake Creek, more than 400km from the coast.
The Mackay-based rescue helicopter flew so far south-west to reach the patient, it had to refuel at Clermont enroute to the property as well as on the return leg at Moranbah before arriving at the Mackay Base Hospital about 2am last Friday morning.
RACQ CQ Rescue was tasked by Queensland Health about 7.20pm on Thursday August 11 to fly to the remote property, located 100km west of Clermont, with a doctor, Critical Care Paramedic and rescue crewman on board.
The dust, dark and remote nature of the property proved incredibly challenging for the crew when attempting to land the rescue helicopter near the homestead.
The teenage girl was administered pain relief and treated by the flying trauma team in an adjacent paddock before being loaded into the helicopter for the long flight to hospital.
She arrived on board the chopper in a stable condition at Mackay Base Hospital more than nine hours after her accident occurred.
It was the ninth mission in just three days for RACQ CQ Rescue. Also on Thursday August 11, the helicopter crew assisted Queensland Police Service with an aerial search for four children reportedly taken from a home near The Leap, north of Mackay.
After an hour-long search of the Hampden area and along the Bruce Highway about 2pm, RACQ CQ Rescue was re-tasked to a near-drowning in the Whitsundays. A Victorian tourist was airlifted from Hamilton Island, about 90km north of Mackay, after an immersion incident on a boat anchored in waters nearby. The patient was taken to the island and then transported to Mackay Base Hospital by helicopter in a stable condition for further treatment.
Last week RACQ CQ Rescue flew to Townsville twice in 24 hours to transfer critically ill and injured patients, also to Ilbilbie on Wednesday night for a cardiac condition as well as airlifted multiple hospital patients from Proserpine and Moranbah to Mackay.
RACQ CQ Rescue flew an epic 7.5-hour mission last week to transfer a teenager from a remote property at Mistake Creek to Mackay Base Hospital. Image supplied: RACQ CQ Rescue
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