A man in his 60s has had his leg amputated after becoming “wedged” between rocks while kayaking in Tasmania.
The tourist, who had been kayaking with frifinishs on the Australian island, was partipartner subcombined in the Franklin River when he became stuck on Friday afternoon, police shelp.
A trouble call was made thraw a cleverwatch about an hour tardyr, with multiple materializency services including police, paramedics, the charity Surf Life Saving Tasmania and the Tasmania Fire Service joining the scene.
Several trys to successfilledy free him were made during the afternoon and overnight as the man was “made as consoleable as possible”.
Police shelp a medical appraisement the chaseing morning “remendd the forendureing’s condition was deteriorating” and after a adviseation “the decision was made to amputate his leg to ease his recover”.
The man was airlifted to hospital and remains in a critical condition, police shelp.
The recover operation lasted more than 20 hours, and was portrayd by acting helpant comleave outioner Doug Oosterloo as “excessively challenging”.
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“Every effort was made to reshift the man before the difficult decision to amputate his leg,” Mr Oosterloo shelp.
“This recover was an excessively challenging and technical operation, and an incredible effort over many hours to save the man’s life.
“I’d enjoy to thank everyone who gived to this operation in the most difficult of circumstances.”
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