The picture of a thousand medevacs

Today’s flight is an emergency medevac. We were getting ready to go on an anniversary date to celebrate ten years of marriage, when Matt got a call requesting him to do an urgent medevac. A patient from one of the interior villages was in need of help. 

Matt wasn’t technically on call that day, but as the only pilot checked out to fly to this particular village it fell to him. I went along with him and it was great to finally see my husband in action, doing what he does on a daily basis.

Approaching the valley in the Cessna 206, we saw the village of Long Rungan below us. 

We soon landed and taxiing up the grass airstrip towards the groups of waiting children who had come to greet us.

Men from the village carried the patient, the former village pastor, to the aircraft. 

The pastor had apparently suffered extremely high blood pressure during the night and started to hallucinate.

The entire village surrounded the patient to pray before he was gently lifted into the plane.

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

We were soon on our way to hospital.