Thursday, November 24, 2011

From the Logbook...Complicated Childbirth

One day last week, we received a late afternoon call asking if we could pick up a woman who had just delivered a baby but was unable to deliver the placenta.  Toxic shock was due to set in and time was of the essence   Thankfully, after a few small weather diversions, I was able to make it to her community and return her to PalangkaRaya to get to the hospital.  Two days later we were informed that she was okay but now her newborn baby that she had left behind in the care of family was now in need of medical care.  I returned to the same area except to a community further downstream.  I quickly loaded the newborn baby and her caregivers and we soon made our way back to PalangkaRaya where they rushed the little baby to the hospital.

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