Pregnant lady airlifted from flood-ravaged southwest Qld

CareFlight has urgently airlifted a 30 year old pregnant female from southwest Queensland after she went into early labour at an isolated Jackson property. 

The young lady started having contractions on a Jackson property, 85 kilometres east of Roma, but severe flooding meant she was unable to receive medical help by road.

Three CareFlight helicopters positioned at our Roma hangar for emergency flood evacuations, have performed five rescue missions today.

A five year old boy suffering from abdominal complications had to be airlifted from Sky Station, southwest of Emerald.

A 57 year old male was transported from Mitchell Hospital to Roma Hospital, and a 54 year old female suffering from a kidney infection was flown from Tamanick Station, 100 kilometres southwest of Roma, to Roma Hospital.

This evening, CareFlight was tasked to search an area northeast of Roma to locate a distress beacon activated shortly before 10pm.

The CareFlight crew located two men after a flare was also activated. The men from the Department of Energy and Environment had been travelling along a swollen creek in a dinghy measuring the floods, when they hit a submerged stump which flipped them out of their boat.

They were able to make their way to higher ground where Emergency Services had gathered.

For more details please contact the 24/7 CareFlight media number on 0448 844 197.