A tourist injured in Yakutia waited four days for evacuation

YAKUTSK, July 13 — RIA Novosti. A tourist was injured in the mountains of the Oymyakonsky District of Yakutia. Due to bad weather, evacuation had to be waited for four days. All participants of the hike were handed over to doctors, the press service of the regional Rescue Service reports.

According to the Rescue Service, information about the injury of a 53-year-old tourist while descending from Mount Chen was received on July 8. The woman may have suffered a broken leg and was unable to move independently. From the moment the signal was received, the forces of the Verkhoyansk, Srednekolymsk search and rescue teams of the airmobile squad in the city of Yakutsk were put on alert. In the Oymyakonsky District, the chief physician of the Central Regional Hospital of the Oymyakonsky District was notified of the incident, and an evacuation request was also sent to the Disaster Medicine Center of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

"However, on July 9, 10 and 11 there were no weather conditions for departure. On July 11, two people headed by the head of the Unified Dispatch Service of the Oymyakon District left the village of Ust-Nera in a Sokol all-terrain vehicle for the scene of the incident. On July 12, at 7 a.m. (1 a.m. Moscow time), they returned back - they were unable to cross the Olchan River," the report says.

Rescuers of the Rescue Service and the emergency medicine task force were on 24-hour alert for an evacuation flight from July 9. But there were no conditions for a flight in Yakutsk, Oymyakonsky Ulus, or Verkhoyansky District.

"On July 12 at 20:15 (14:15 Moscow time) the Oymyakon District Administration agreed on the departure of a helicopter of OOO Vostok from the village of Ust-Nera to the scene of the incident. A temporary window in weather conditions appeared and the helicopter immediately took off for the victim. At 21:46 (15:46 Moscow time) the helicopter evacuated all the participants of the hike, they were handed over to the ambulance medics," the press service noted.

The Oymyakon area is considered the pole of cold; 80 years ago, a record temperature of minus 71.2 degrees was recorded here.