A 27-year old Filipino sailor was last night flown to hospital by helicopter after suffering severe fever while on a tanker off Malta.

The AFM said it received an urgent MEDEVAC request at 11.55 p.m. from the Marshall Islands-registered motor-tanker Overseas Sifnos which was 14 nautical miles off Grand Harbour.

The sailor was evacuated by an Italian Air Force AB-212 helicopter flown by a joint Italo-Maltese crew.

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