From the Logbook...Banjarmasin Patient Flight

A few weeks ago, we were called about a stroke victim from an interior village.  It was bad enough that the family knew that the best chance at good medical care for his condition was straight to the city of Banjarmasin...about 40 minutes further south from where we live in PalangkaRaya.

So, after a 45 minute flight to the interior village I helped put the man, his wife, and a nurse into my airplane.  I'm no doctor, but he wasn't doing very well.  It's startling actually the wide variety of patients we intimately come into contact with in our flying.  We see the same exact things that any EMT in an American ambulance would encounter without any of the resources to help the patient.  After loading him up, we flew almost one hour and 25 minutes to the dock near the city of Banjarmasin.  

After getting the patient loaded up into the awaiting ambulance, it was time for a little catching up with our dock agent and their family members.  We don't often fly to Banjarmasin, only with critical patients so it's fun to spend a few minutes talking with the folks down there.