The call to the hospital

The call to the hospital

Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Contributor(s):
Almasy, Paul, photographer
Language(s):
English
French
Format:
Still image
Subject(s):
Emergency Medical Services
Public Health
World Health Organization.
Abstract:
Interior view: a young Eskimo is standing next to a radio operator as help is summoned. Verso: WHO/8334. 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 vomitting. Totik had a good hour's walk from the lonely Hakongak dwelling to Tuktoyaktuk, on the delta of the Mackenzie river far in Canda's north. The temperature was some 30 below zero as he made his way through the arctic snow ..... The call to the hospital
Copyright:
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Copyright Information:
World Health Organization; World Health Organization website
Extent:
1 photoprint.
NLM Unique ID:
101436842 (See catalog record)
NLM Image ID:
A013758
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101436842