Uni student gets helicopter rescue after venomous snake bite

: A university student bitten by a viper snake while hiking up Gunung Tahan yesterday, required immediate evacuation by the Fire and Rescue Department helicopter for medical treatment.

According to New Straits Times, Pahang Fire and Rescue Department deputy director Ismail Abdul Ghani said the 20-year-old female student was part of a group of 40 undergraduates on a hiking expedition at Gunung Tahan from June 25 to 30. “The department instructed two mountain cave search and rescue team members in Merapoh who were at Kor camp to gone to the spot to provide first aid,“ he said in a statement today.

He added that the department’s helicopter, with five crew members, picked up two medical officers at Bukit Bius in Lipis at 9.26am today before continuing to Botak camp to treat the hiker.

Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)

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