When the Road to Treatment Runs Through the Sea: Where Is Hormozgan's Sea Ambulance?

The death of a patient on the sea route from Qeshm to Bandar Abbas raises, beyond one family's grief and one incident's bitterness, a fundamental question about the access of Hormozgan's island residents to emergency medical services. The answer cannot be found merely in describing the final moments of a sea journey. It must be examined in the readiness of the rescue fleet, the islands' medical facilities and the way critically ill patients are transferred.

The death of a patient on the sea route of Qeshm to Bandar Abbas, beyond the grief of a family and the bitterness of an incident, has raised a fundamental question about the access status of the residents of the Hormozgan Islands to emergency medical services; A question whose answer cannot be found only in the description of the final moments of a sea voyage, but it should be examined in the preparation of the rescue fleet, the medical facilities of the islands and the way of transporting critically ill patients.