Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Lots of Patients...Trouble with Twins (pt. 2 of 3)

Once again, Isaac Rogers was on the other end of the camera capturing our awesome MAF-PalangkaRaya team in action.  Not long ago, Aaron Hoffmann returned with a woman having trouble delivering twins.  She had already delivered the first baby, but the second baby was having trouble and was unable to be delivered in her interior village.

These type of patients require a lot more help to get out of the airplane than the little girl in my previous post.  Thankfully, we've all done this enough times, it usually goes pretty smoothly.

Once she is on the stretcher, we gather around and take her up the dock bridge to the awaiting ambulance.

Making the transition from our stretcher to the ambulance stretcher is always interesting.  It seems like this is done differently every time due to many things.

Thankfully, she was soon loaded onto the ambulance and taken to the nearby hospital.  I heard afterward that unfortunately the second baby was delivered stillborn, an unfortunate reality to some of the challenges facing complex medical situations here.

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