Two LifeFlight helicopters have each flown a patient to hospital, after they were bitten by a snake in separate incidents this morning.
The Bundaberg-based RACQ LifeFlight Rescue chopper crew was tasked to the Gladstone region around 10.30am this morning, where a man had been bitten by a snake.
It’s believed he was moving the reptile off the road, when it bit him on the arm.
Local QAS paramedics transported the patient to the waiting rescue chopper, which had landed at a nearby airstrip.
The man, aged in his 20s, was flown to Bundaberg Hospital for further treatment.
It followed an earlier similar mission by the Toowoomba-based RACQ LifeFlight Rescue chopper, which was called into action at approximately 9am, after a farmer was bitten by a brown snake in the Somerset region.
The man was working on his property when the snake struck him in the leg.
The pilot landed the aircraft in a field, where the RACQ LifeFlight Rescue Critical Care Doctor and Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) Flight Paramedic assisted in treating the patient, along with local QAS paramedics.
The man, aged in his 50s, was airlifted to Toowoomba Hospital.
