Port Blair, Sept 18: A patient named Rehan Khan aged 19 years male from Barefoot Scuba Havelock during sea diving today at 9.30 AM developed some sign of decompression sickness, a condition arising from dissolved gases coming out of blood into bubbles inside the body on depressurization. On receiving the information the patient was evacuated by pvt speed boat on Oxygen to Port Blair and he was received by Dr Avijit Roy, Port Health Officer at Port Blair and after initial assessment it was decided to put the patient on re-compression, a treatment where the gas bubbles are being dissolved by putting the patient in the hyperbaric chamber for hours together. With the help of INHS Dhanvantri he was shifted to the Clearance Diving Unit of Indian Navy, Port Blair on emergency basis. The patient received hyperbaric treatment for more than two and half hours and later was discharged when he got stable.
The quick action of the Officer In Charge of Clearance Diving Unit, Indian navy and his team made it possible to save the life of the patient in distress.
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