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:
- 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:
- 101436842 (See catalog record)
- NLM Image ID:
- A013758
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101436842