Originally Posted by
Smokey23
I think the captain did the right thing and should be praised for it. To me, the bigger question is why it took seven hours (!) to recover from a medical divert into an online station, in the middle of the afternoon.
From the articles, they used some medical equipment that had to be replaced before continuing. By the time that was done, the flight attendant(s) timed out and they had to bring in replacement(s).