Cassos: Slipped and died helpless, serious complaints about the cancellation of air transport

Resurrection or the death of a 75-year-old and the complaints of close relatives about what happened after his injury… Cassos at the heart of the death of a 75 – year – old man, who, as his close relatives claim, if there was an elementary sensitivity, would probably live today. According to the complaints, the EKAB did not care to run the procedures for the air transport of the injured to a hospital in Crete or Rhodes. The EAA on the other hand responds that air transport did not proceed because the unfortunate man’s condition was deemed irreversible. Tragedy at noon on 24 March 2024 in Casso. A 75-year-old slipped, fell and hit his head. Immediately the health center doctor was alerted who found that the unfortunate man had been seriously injured and had already lost consciousness and was in a coma, with internal bleeding. All the authorities of Kasos were immediately mobilised to move the injured person with the EKAB to the hospital of Rhodes or to a hospital in Crete. As the elderly’s relatives report, although the EKAB was notified, it was eventually not sent a means of transport for a hospital, since it was considered unsustainable the situation of the injured. The residents of Kasu and the authorities consider that air transport should be done without a second discussion and no decisions made by a diagnosis made by the phone. The EKAB after the refusals of the Rhodes and Crete hospitals to accept the baryumatia, did not order an air medium to rise, resulting in three hours waiting, the 75-year-old to end up. According to skyrodos.gr, the authorities of Kasu blame EKAB for the delay and cancellation of air transport, while EKAB considers that this was not because hospitals did not show interest in treating the injured.