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.
- 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:
- 101436841 (See catalog record)
- NLM Image ID:
- A013757
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101436841