We had an incident a few months ago (on Good Friday of all days). Found out then that the helicopter will ONLY come out if it is a life or death situation. The airplane will come and pick up a person for a fee, and transport them to a hospital in Belize City. The incident we had was life threatening, and if the gentleman had stayed on the island over the holiday weekend he would not have survived. He had cracked some ribs earlier in the week, but on the night before Good Friday fell into something and actually pierced his lung. His lung filling up with blood/fluid was not sufficiently "life or death" to get the helicopter here, but we did get him out by plane.

Another obstacle we encountered was finding a taxi with removable seats that could hold him on a board. After this experience, we now have some information about getting emergency care on the island.

BTW the man recovered enough to return to San Pedro the Tuesday after Easter.

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