Landing at Inuvik
- Collection:
- Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
- Contributor(s):
- Almasy, Paul, photographer
- Language(s):
- English French
- Format:
- Still image
- Subject(s):
- Ambulances Transportation of Patients Public Health World Health Organization
- Abstract:
- Exterior view: a patient is being transfered from an airplane to an ambulance for continuation of the journey to the hospital. Verso: WHO/8336. 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 hour's walk from the lonely Hakongak dwelling to Tuktoyaktuk, on the delta of Zero as he made his way though the arctic snow.... Landing at Inurvik
- Copyright:
- WHO must be mentioned in the accompanying text and/or given credit. This item may be under copyright protection. Please ask copyright owner for permission before publishing.
- Copyright Holder:
- World Health Organization; Source: Record; Research date: 20151005
- Extent:
- 1 photoprint.
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101436836 (See catalog record)
- NLM Image ID:
- A013755
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101436836