This is what the ‘Flying Doctor’ did yesterday in SA – a day in the life if you like – to demonstrate how your support helps us deliver emergency aeromedical and essential primary health care services to more than 40 South Australians every day of the year. Below a ‘snapshot’ of the 24-hour period from midnight to midnight yesterday …South Australia Our day started at 12:15am when one of our Adelaide crews was tasked to transfer a patient from Berri Hospital to the Royal Adelaide Hospital. Back on the ground for just 50 minutes, the Adelaide night crew were back in the air again, at 3:55am, this time destined for Kadina on the Yorke Peninsula to evacuate a patient with facial injuries from a savage dog bite. They touched down again in Adelaide at 5:15am and completed their shift. On standby since 5:00am, the Adelaide morning crew received their first task at 6:00am when a child with an abdominal injury was admitted to Whyalla Hospital and required an urgent transfer to the Women’s & Children’s Hospital in Adelaide. Another 10 flights were conducted by SA crews that day, the last of which completed when the Port Augusta evening crew returned just before midnight with another evacuation from the Riverland – the third for the day: We also transferred a patient interstate from the Adelaide to Melbourne, at 10:30am, a one-month-old baby from the Women’s & Children’s Hospital to the Royal Children’s Hospital for life-saving cardiac surgery. I hope this helps offer some insight into the difference the RFDS and its supporters make to the community every day. Thank you again for your support and enthusiasm in fundraising for the RFDS
Posted on: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 11:40:32 +0000
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