Geoffs Life After Work !

Royal Flying Doctors Service that I was fortunate enough to have used

Recently having a heart problem I was fortunate to utilize the services of the Australian Royal Flying Doctors Service invoked by the medical team at Hervey Bay and they were to fly me to Brisbanes Royal Hospital .After getting 1st class transport to the airport via an ambulance I was given a bed in the propelled air craft ! The male nurse was from Carlisle a hop,skip and a jump from my home town Blackpool in England.The pilot was very chatty and cheerful as I was strapped into my travel position ( it was so comfortable I actually nodded off !!) The flight took approx 40 minutes being 300kms from my home. A wee bit of info has been plagiarizer from their website and reads thus

The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia is one of the largest and most comprehensive aeromedical organisations in the world. Using the latest in aviation, medical and communications technology, it delivers extensive primary healthcare and 24-hour emergency service to those who live, work and travel throughout Australia.
Today, the Royal Flying Doctor Service has a fleet of more than 60 aircraft operating from 21 bases located across the nation and provides medical assistance to over 290,000 people every year – that’s one person every two minutes.
Why does the Royal Flying Doctor Service need to raise funds?

Whilst the Royal Flying Doctor Service receives some financial support from Commonwealth, State and Territory governments, we rely heavily on fundraising and donations from the community to purchase and medically-equip our aircraft, and to finance other health and major capital initiatives. 
The Royal Flying Doctor Service can only continue to provide its emergency medical evacuations and essential primary health care services with the on-going support of the community.

John Flynn is the founder of RFDS,and turned  his considerable fund-raising talents to the task of establishing a flying medical service. The first flight of the Aerial Medical Service was in 1928 from Cloncurry, Queensland. A museum commemorating the founding of the Royal Flying Doctor Service is located at John Flynn Place in Cloncurry.  He finally retired and died in Sydney. He was cremated and his remains placed under a large boulder from the Devils Marbles. In an unfortunate postscript to Flynn’s life, the Northern Territory  Department of Public Works had taken the rock from a site sacred to its traditional owners. After many years of negotiations the rock was returned to its original location in 1998 and replaced with one acceptable to the Aboriginal people, both of the original rock’s home and the people on whose land his grave lies.

May 2, 2014 - Posted by Luxxys Lovely Lived Life | Uncategorized