Lifeboat transfers patient from Mull

OBAN lifeboat was launched on Saturday January 21 to assist with a medical transfer from the Isle of Mull.

The Mora Edith MacDonald was requested to launch on service at 2.04am to help the Scottish Ambulance Service with a medical transfer of a casualty from Craignure.

The volunteer crew departed Oban with two paramedics onboard, arriving alongside at Craignure by 2.55am. With the assistance of the Craignure Coast Rescue Team, the casualty was safely transferred to the lifeboat.

Arriving back in Oban by 3.45am, the casualty was transferred on to a waiting ambulance with the help of Oban’s Coast Rescue Team.