The Hungarian team provided amazing depth of medical assistance to the caver of the international expedition.
- One kilometer deep, a Hungarian doctor operated on the American caver in trouble in Turkey. My recognition for the success of a simple intervention even in hospital conditions! Miklós Kásler, president of the Hungarian Research Institute and former minister, wrote on his Facebook page.
The portal Híradó.hu reported that the famous caver who fell ill deep in the Morca cave in southern Turkey last Saturday appeared in a video message from a depth of almost a thousand meters.
Mark Dickey thanked the help he received from the surface. "The quick response of the Turkish government and the acquisition of the necessary medical equipment saved my life," he said.
Mark Dickey was doing research as part of an international expedition at a depth of more than a thousand meters when he developed gastrointestinal bleeding.
He was in such a state that he had to be helped in the depths. An international operation was launched to save it, in which, in addition to Turkish organizations, Hungarian, Croatian, Italian, Bulgarian and Slovenian teams also participate.
The four-person medical team of the Hungarian Cave Rescue Service was the first to reach Dickey. The researcher's condition was stabilized with medication and a blood transfusion.
The medical team of the Hungarian Cave Rescue Service arrived on the scene last Sunday, and they began providing life-saving medical care to the 40-year-old American speleologist, who was in a life-threatening condition. This group set up a care point at -1,040 meters, where they could provide the injured with intensive care and, in addition to medication, they could also perform a blood transfusion, he wrote on the website of the cave rescue service .
"A specialist who, by the way, digs caves and is still able to intervene after reaching a depth of a thousand meters, was able to go down." A group of medical helpers went with him, who also took off their equipment, and there he was able to create the conditions under which he can work, said the head of the Hungarian Cave Rescue Service.
