You’ll never believe how some were hurt

The weird ways Aussies are injured while on holiday

travel updatesincidentsMore than 4000 Australian tourists ended up in hospital last year and over canada goose uk shop 155 had to be evacuated back to Australia by air ambulance. You’ll never believe how some were hurt.

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The most expensive holiday health event cost $1.5 million.

Allianz insurance has revealed one of the more sensational injuries covered by its travel insurance business involved a 58 year old man who had his official canada goose outlet bladder and colon punctured by an canada goose outlet black friday antelope in Zimbabwe.

He was walking through a uk canada goose camp in the African country when he startled a canada goose outlet canada Nyala Antelope.

It thrashed its head canada goose store at him, penetrating his lower abdomen and he had to be evacuated to South Africa where he was hospitalised for 10 days.

An canada goose black friday sale Aussie tourist was speared by an antelope in Zimbabwe. Picture: BeyondSource:Supplied

Allianz nursing team arranged flights and accommodation for the patient and his wife as he canada goose outlet online uk recovered, before sending him home to Australia on a business class flight, the event cost $45,000.

The insurer says that Indonesia and Thailand are the most common destinations requiring urgent medical assistance.

The insurer is one of the only canada goose outlet uk sale Australian insurance companies to offer an in house repatriation service via a team of 26 highly skilled nurses through its Allianz Global Assistance Medical Assistance Team.

Repatriation nurse Georgie Mewing says caring for a patient on an aircraft is high stress because when the human body is taken to high altitudes it can affect oxygen supply and other gases in the body.

Some of the canada goose outlet new york city patients helped by the service have been victims canada goose outlet store of terror attacks in Europe, skiing and cheap canada goose uk https://www.drachen-spiele.de snowboard injuries where the bones protrude out from the skin canada goose outlet are common, she said.

The Tour de France sees canada goose outlet a rise in cycling accidents from fans following the route. Picture: Getty ImagesSource:Getty Images

Tour de France time there is always a rise in cycling accidents from people following the route, she said.

Other patients need help after developing the bends while scuba diving and some develop severe altitude sickness from mountain climbing where their brain swells and their lungs stop working.

Wagga Wagga school student Benazir Ali who was celebrating the end of her five year battle with leukaemia had to cut her family holiday in the US short last year when she was evacuated home with osteomyelitis.

Beni buy canada goose jacket cheap collapsed after arriving in Las Vegas, her legs weren working and she needed emergency surgery to flush fluid form her hip joint.

An Allianz nurse accompanied Beni on the flight home and during canada goose outlet uk a two hour stop over in Fiji the 12 year old suffered an anaphylactic reaction to the IV antibiotics she was receiving and went limp, she was rushed to hospital in Fiji before eventually making it back to Sydney Children Hospital.

Benazir Ali met her hero Marshmelo. Picture: SuppliedSource:Supplied

Beni greatest fear about falling ill was she canada goose outlet nyc would miss out on meeting her canada goose uk outlet hero electronic music producer and DJ Marshmelo in his Los Angeles studio as arranged for her birthday.