The Dubai Police treated ten scuba divers suffering from decompression sickness known as ‘the bends’ by placing divers inside a decompression chamber located at the Dubai Police Health Centre.
Dubai Police help 26 paralysed scuba divers walk again
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In different instances last year, they had suffered from decompression sickness known as ‘the bends’.
Dubai Police have treated 26 scuba divers suffering from decompression sickness, also known as the bends , by placing the divers inside a decompression chamber located at the Dubai Police Health Centre.
Major Ismail Hasan Mahmoud, Director of Oxygenating Treatment at the General Department of Transport and Rescue, said the Dubai Police decompression chamber has helped treat amateur divers who fall ill after not decompressing properly from deep-ocean diving. It is understood the treatments have taken place over a period of time in separate cases.
20 Feb 2021
Gulf Today, Staff Reporter
The Dubai Police treated 26 scuba divers suffering from decompression sickness known as ‘the bends’ by placing divers inside a decompression chamber located at the Dubai Police Health Centre.
According to Major Ismail Hasan Mahmoud, Director of Oxygenating Treatment at the General Department of Transport and Rescue, the Dubai Police decompression chamber has helped treat amateur divers who fall ill after not decompressing properly from deep ocean diving.
Dubai Police urge divers to call 999 in cases of emergency.
“We’ve treated divers and helped them walk again after they were paralyzed. This is usually a result of not following safety procedures after spending many hours underwater or rising quickly from underwater,” Major Mahmoud explained.