A man in his 60s has been airlifted to hospital suffering serious injuries after he tripped and fell down some stairs on a commercial fishing boat off Whangarei Heads this afternoon.
Auckland Westpac Rescue Helicopter were called to assist the man at 2.00pm today, with an intensive care paramedic being winched onto the boat to treat the patient.
The injured fisherman had suffered a severe laceration of about 5cm to his stomach and had sustained some blood loss, as well as hitting his head in the fall.
Both the patient and the intensive care paramedic then met the Westpac 2 helicopter as the fishing boat docked, and they flew the patient to Whangarei Base Hospital in a serious condition.
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