Mr. Iambai Pisau
Wonderful man, miraculous journey. I'm glad infection didn't set in.
Posted on 04/29/2009 9:27:10 PM PDT by naturalman1975
A PAPUA New Guinea man made a four-day trip to Cairns carrying a six-year-old girl so badly injured her intestines were exposed.
Forty-year-old farmer Iambai Pisau was called to his niece's PNG village school on the border of Indonesia last Thursday afternoon after she fell out of a classroom window and landed on a sharp hibiscus tree.
The fall pierced young Dulcie Nakai's abdomen, exposing her intestines.
Mr Pisau took his niece to their remote PNG village's first aid post by canoe only to find the medical officer away for the night distributing donated mosquito nets.
He treated his niece as best he could using a bandage and Panadol before the pair endured a five-hour ambulance ride to another PNG town, Morehead, last Friday.
From Morehead, the two travelled eight hours in a motorised dinghy, which constantly broke down, before spending the night in a bush hut at the mouth of a crocodile-infested river.
On Sunday, it was another four hours in the dinghy to get to Boigu Island, in the Torres Strait.
A medical team on the island organised a helicopter transfer to Thursday Island where the pair was met by the Royal Flying Doctor Service and flown to Cairns, arriving early Monday morning.
Surgeons at Cairns Base Hospital successfully conducted life-saving surgery on Dulcie and she is now resting comfortably.
(Excerpt) Read more at cairns.com.au ...
Amen, and thank God the child is resting well.
Hope there are no problems.
And pray she realizes what an incredible man her Uncle really is.
Amen
World’s coolest uncle.
Speechless here. Bless this man.
I sometimes tell my stepson, "Deal with it, that's what men do."
He's starting to get it. Don't worry about it, don't bitch, whine and complain...whatever life throws at you, you do your best and deal with it.
That's what men do.
A good uncle, indeed.
Praise to you Lord Jesus for your mercy and provision!
Mr. Iambai Pisau
Wonderful man, miraculous journey. I'm glad infection didn't set in.
HERO.
Thank God for this guy who refused to give up on his niece.
wow.
would that I could do the same under the circumstances but I can barely carry a 6 year old.
Uncle of the Year Award
He may be embarrassed at being called a hero... but Mr Pisau is a hero!
You mean they don’t have federally funded universal child health care and insurance? I thought the USA was the only nation in the world that doesn’t have efficient and affordable emergency health care for children.
Bless this child’s uncle, and the med-flight crews who helped & transported them.
Also can’t help noticing that that instead for crossing the ‘nearby border’ into Inodnesia for help, they opted for a very long and grueling trip to Aussie territory. No need to wonder why.
I wonder what this man would say to those that believe that things like helicopters or reliable trucks are destroying the Earth.
My God could you imagine this kind of thing happening here. There would be an outcry that would be deafening.
Yet this is that type of world that the environmental anti-human destroyers want us to live in.
While this man is a true hero, I mostly feel sadness and anger at this story. Who is keeping these people in the 1920’s?
Wonderful to hear of that kind of familial love in the farthest flung corners of the world. Just great.
We've both been here a long time, I don't think we've ever crossed paths before. Greetings.
Well, he’d get better health care here than in Indonesia, anyway (although from what I know, the Indonesians would do their best) but besides anything else, PNG was an Australian territory until quite recently, and we still provide specialist support to them when needed under a variety of agreements (PNG-Australia Development Cooperation Strategy).
He deserves an Uncle Buck Award!
Prayers for the child & that is a Great uncle.
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