Updated Feb. 7
The U.S. Coast Guard landed in Waban Park in Oak Bluffs Thursday afternoon to airlift a 67-year-old man experiencing a medical emergency off the Island.
Coast Guard spokesperson Diolanda Caballero said a call came in from Martha’s Vineyard Hospital requesting a medical evacuation for the patient, who was showing signs of liver cirrhosis and metabolic encephalitis.
With the support of Oak Bluffs first responders, the Coast Guard Sikorsky MH-60T Jayhawk helicopter took the patient to Air Station Cape Cod in Buzzards Bay. The man was then transported in an ambulance to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
This isn’t the first time the Coast Guard has flown a patient from the park when the weather was too rough for Boston MedFlight.
Updated with information from the Coast Guard.
