Mark Dickey became suddenly ill with stomach bleeding during an expedition with a handful of others in the Morca cave in southern Turkey’s Taurus Mountains.
"This is a difficult operation. It would take a person 16 hours to come out."has recovered sufficiently enough to be extracted in an operation that could last three or four days, a Turkish official was quoted as saying on Friday.
"The doctors we sent down were very successful in treating him," Cenk Yildiz, a regional official from Turkey’s disaster relief agency, told the IHA news agency. "We are now in a position to evacuate him." An American is recovering deep below ground and awaiting rescue after getting sick while on a mapping expedition of Turkey's Morca cave.
Doctors were expected to decide whether he will need to leave the cave on a stretcher or if he can leave under his own power. The New Jersey Initial Response Team said the rescue will require many teams and constant medical care inside the cave, which is also quite cold.
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