Nasty fall on Mount Mulu lands Japanese researcher in Miri Hospital

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Akihiro, seen resting on a stretcher, shows thumbs-up to members of the Medevac team and also the firefighters involved in the rescue mission.

MIRI: A Japanese researcher, who was injured during a climbing expedition on Mount Mulu last Saturday, is now being treated at Miri Hospital.

The Medical Emergency Evacuation (Medevac) helicopter was despatched to transport Akihiro Noda, 25, from Camp 4 of Mulu National Park to the hospital on Monday, but it could not take off due to bad weather.

The helicopter touched down here at 8.35am yesterday.

According to Fire and Rescue Department Sarawak operations centre, they received an emergency call from Mulu National Park at 1.22pm on Dec 16, requesting for a Medevac helicopter to airlift a Japanese researcher from
Camp 4.

It is believed that Akihiro had suffered a broken hip and bruises on his rib after a nasty fall during a climbing expedition on Mount Mulu with another Japanese researcher and three porters.

The injured Japanese was received by Fire and Rescue Department Sarawak director Khirudin Drahman and Zone 6 Fire and Rescue station chief Supt Law Poh Kiong at Miri Hospital yesterday.

Akihiro arrives at the helicopter landing area in Miri, where an ambulance is waiting to take him to Miri Hospital.