On board of Etna ship, in the operations of health screening and judicial police, the Red Cross doctors, the volunteers of the Red Cross Corps, the volunteers of the Rava Foundation, of Save the Children and the staff of the State Police cooperate. Yesterday the patrol boats of the Harbor Offices 302 and 309 together with the civil tugboat Burbon Argos rescued a rubber boat south of Lampedusa.
The boat had 16 lifeless bodies on board, presumably died of hypothermia and dehydration, and 76 migrants, including two in critical condition: one for hypothermia transferred with the Etna ship helicopter to the hospital of Lampedusa and one with pulmonary edema in the end of life and died shortly thereafter.
The health assessments were carried out by the medical staff of the Cisom (Italian Relief Corps of the Order of Malta) on board the patrol boats of the Port Authorities. The migrants were transferred first to Orione and subsequently to the Etna refueling vessel.
The bodies were transferred to the CP 273 patrol boat of the Port Authorities for the landing today in Porto Empedocle.
Source: Military Navy
