Landing of a flying ambulance near a lonely dwelling in Canada's north

Landing of a flying ambulance near a lonely dwelling in Canada's north

Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Contributor(s):
Almasy, Paul, photographer
Language(s):
English
French
Format:
Still image
Subject(s):
Stretchers
Transportation of Patients
Public Health
World Health Organization.
Abstract:
Two people are waiting with a patient on a stretcher, as an airplane ambulance lands nearby. Verso: WHO/8335. Canada-Health Services. Emergency North: In the end it was his mother who decided to send Totik for Help. All through the long February night, grandmother Hakongak's pain had been getting worse. She groaned and sweated and she had been vomiting. Totik had a good hour's walk from the lonely Hakongak dwelling to Tuktoyaktuk on the delta of the Mackemsie river far in Canada's north. The temperature was some 30 below zero as he made his way though the arctic snow ... Landing of a flying ambulance near a lonely dwelling in Canada's north.
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Copyright Information:
World Health Organization; World Health Organization website
Extent:
1 photoprint.
NLM Unique ID:
101436841 (See catalog record)
NLM Image ID:
A013757
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101436841