Emergency Med-Evac Fly Along

On Saturday Matt and I were getting ready to go on an anniversary date to celebrate ten years of marriage, when Matt got a call requesting him to med-evac a patient from one of the interior villages. He wasn't technically on call that day but it turns out that he was the only pilot checked out to fly to this particular village. For the first time, I went along with him. It was great to finally see my husband in action, doing what he does on a daily basis.

The beautiful Borneo jungle



 

Hundreds of miles of uninhabited jungle. We also saw a waterfall on the way back. There are absolutely no roads to this village, so the only way out is by airplane. 

The valley of Long Rungan (the name of the village where the patient was waiting).



 This is the airstrip we landed on.

Men carrying the patient to the airplane.



This was the village pastor. He apparently had extremely high blood pressure during the night and started to hallucinate.



 The entire village surrounded the patient to pray.

Securing the patient into the airplane. He was taken to a hospital in a larger city so that he could receive the care that he needed.