A Coast Guard helicopter flew an ill woman from the remote Kalaupapa settlement on Molokai to Oahu early this morning.

The state Department of Health requested the medical evacuation for a woman in her 70s.

A Coast Guard HH-65 Dolphin HHC-130 long-range helicopter air crew from Air Station Barbers Point and a Disaster Medical Assist Team member arrived at Kalaupapa at 12:30 a.m. and returned to Oahu at about 2 a.m. An ambulance took the patient to Straub Clinic and Hospital.

No information was immediately available about the woman’s condition.