MAF's emergency flights save lives in Papua
Our team in Papua, Indonesia, continues to make life-saving flights for people in remote areas who have no other way to reach hospital in times of emergency. People like Mika.
Our team in Papua, Indonesia, continues to make life-saving flights for people in remote areas who have no other way to reach hospital in times of emergency. People like Mika.
Our light aircraft recently enabled a small boy to leave the jungle and receive a life-saving operation.
Mika had been swinging on a tree branch when it broke, impaling him. A local missionary tried to help but, because Mika needed urgent medical assistance, we flew the boy, his mother and the missionary to Sentani, Papua.
As soon as the plane landed, Mika was taken to hospital where a doctor operated immediately. The branch that had punctured Mika's small intestine and had been in imminent danger of causing further damage was successfully removed.
The missionary later discovered that, just as Mika was going into theatre, a group of Christian women in the village had begun praying for him.
A few days later, our plane flew Mika and his mother back to their home village.
Give thanks for yet another successful MAF medevac, and pray that its positive outcome will encourage the growing number of believers living in this isolated area.
MAF has carried out many other medical emergency flights to remote Papuan villages in recent weeks. Here are some of them.
We appreciate the support which helps us save thousands of lives each year in Papua and around the world.