3.11.4.1 ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN
Ensure that the best qualified and most experienced person on board
provides medical care to the sick individual
seek medical advice over the vessel’s radio and through other
means of communication
the Master should consider deviating for medical assistance if close
to the coast
if in port or at anchor, call an ambulance and/or the local correspondents
consider landing the sick person ashore
the Company, the P&I insurer and the correspondent must be informed
if the Master decides to deviate
all radio messages exchanged should be recorded
if a sick crew member is landed ashore and has to be left behind, record
and pack all personal effects of the crew member, preferably in the presence
of two officers, and deliver them to the agent for forwarding to the hospital,
together with a copy of the inventory list
request the local correspondents to inform the sick person’s local
consulate
consider compliance with relevant manning regulations and a possible
need for substitution of the crew member.