Dubai Police help 26 paralysed scuba divers walk again

Dubai - In different instances last year, they had suffered from decompression sickness known as ‘the bends’.

Dubai Police have treated 26 scuba divers suffering from decompression sickness, also known as 'the bends', by placing the divers inside a decompression chamber located at the Dubai Police Health Centre.

Major Ismail Hasan Mahmoud, Director of Oxygenating Treatment at the General Department of Transport and Rescue, said the Dubai Police decompression chamber has helped treat amateur divers who fall ill after not decompressing properly from deep-ocean diving. It is understood the treatments have taken place over a period of time in separate cases.

“We've treated divers and helped them walk again after they were paralysed. This is usually a result of not following safety procedures after spending many hours underwater or rising quickly from underwater,” Major Mahmoud added.