On Thursday, 9 January, shortly before 12pm the Mounties Care CareFlight Helicopter was tasked by NSW Ambulance after a teenage boy was injured in a wakeboarding accident on the Hawkesbury River in Lower Portland.
CareFlight’s specialist doctor and NSW Ambulance paramedics provided care to the boy, providing clinical assessment for his injuries to the head.
The patient was flown to the Children’s Hospital at Westmead in a stable condition.