11 August 2013

Bushwalker down

| johnboy
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ACT Ambulance Service intensive care paramedics have been on scene in the Namadgi National Park.

Crews have treated a female bushwalker who sustained a lower leg injury.

The Snowy Hydro SouthCare Rescue Helicopter was also deployed to assist in retrieving the female patient in an area near Booroomba Rocks.

The female patient has just been successfully winched from the area and is being taken to The Canberra Hospital in a stable condition.

3:26 PM

[Courtesy ESA]

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