Probably the best thing missionaries ever did for Australia.
Our $20 note honours Flynn of the Inland and the RFDS.
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 ...
Wow!! Yes, thank GOD that infection didn’t set in and she’s doing well.
Oh, they would do their best, but that best wouldn’t compare to what Australia can provide.
I do usually forget that PNG was your territory.
In any case, the Royal Flying Doctor Service is a heck of an outfit. If I ever came Down There, and sat on a redback in the Outback, I’d be more than happy to turn bottoms-up for them to fix it.
riveting. Prayers for her recovery, and for this amazing hero. My daughter is six and this really moved me.
There is a quote, I'm not sure where it is from, where an officer stated that for every action that garnered a Medal of Honor there were a dozen other acts that were equal in heroism.
Under Obamacare, the injured niece would have to wait 4 months to see a doctor. So this situation would be an improvement.
Probably the best thing missionaries ever did for Australia.
Our $20 note honours Flynn of the Inland and the RFDS.
“I mostly feel sadness and anger at this story. Who is keeping these people in the 1920’s?”
They are. In the mid ‘60s, many were still head hunters killing each other with crude bows and arrows. Some today are not too far advanced beyond that. Give them awhile, soon they’ll be as decadent as us.
And for a bit of your time here
http://www.flyingdoctor.net/Our-History.html
you will read an intersting slice of history....
Well, that part of Indonesia is still just a bunch of jungle with primitive villages. However, there are several gold and copper mines on the island of New Guinea. Modern ones, run by Americans, Aussies, Canucks (not the diamond hand mucking stuff you see in Africa). However, eveything is so remote over there - a mine with a modern doctor might have been just as difficult to get to.
But yeah - what an Uncle! And she must be one tough little girl too!
May God richly bless that family and draw each one of them close to Himself.
I used to know a guy who was a missionary in PNG. He was the second white man anyone in the tribe had ever seen. This was in the late 1970’s. As I recall PNG is extremely tribal with over 700 languages. He was there for five years before he could even begin to evangelize them cause he had to learn their very complex culture.
This story alone is evidence of how their cultures are changing. Twonty years ago, the girl would have been allowed to die. Now, superhuman efforts are undertaken to prevent death. The importance of life has come to the forefront.
And yes, he is a hero.
Hello new friend. Have seen your posts but don’t think we’ve ever “talked” here before.
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