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The National Search and Rescue Centre carried out two rescue and evacuation operations within 48 hours. The first was in coordination with the Sharjah Police on Saturday in which a 16-year-old Emirati teenager was airlifted from the desert of Al Madam area after he had sustained injuries in a motorbike accident. 

The second operation was carried out in coordination with the Ras Al Khaimah Police and National Ambulance on Sunday evening in which three Filipinos had been rescued and evacuated in Yans Mountain in Ras Al Khaimah.

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The Centre explained that it received a call from the operation room of Sharjah Police reporting a person in a critical condition due to the wounds he sustained in an accident in the desert of Al Madam area and that he needed urgent medical intervention.

Following the coordination with Sharjah, the injured person was located by operational systems assisted by the operations room’ team at the National Centre and with the rescue and search helicopter, the patient had been airlifted and transferred to Al Dhaid Hospital in Sahrjah.

In the second operation, the Centre was alerted by the Ras Al Khaimah Police about a car that overturned and fell from Yans Mountain, leading to critical injuries to the passengers, who needed urgent medical treatment. They were airlifted to Saqr Hospital to receive the necessary treatment while ensuring the precautionary measures against COVID-19.