Despite being just a 90-minute flight from Darwin, nurse Joy Booth says the health service in Timor-Leste is 'light years away from what is provided in Australia'. But that doesn't stop her and other volunteers from providing life-changing surgeries for babies and young children.
Joy Booth has helped change the lives of hundreds of babies and young children through her volunteer work.Australian nurse educator Joy Booth has embarked on 11 surgical volunteer trips to Timor-Leste .What's next?
While Timor-Leste is just 90 minutes by plane from Darwin, Ms Booth said the medical workforce there often faces limitations with supplies, equipment and power failures, making it difficult to operate. "When it's raining a lot, the AC will go, the lights will go, electricity will go, so that can also be very challenging at times.""If we go there and do 40 operations, we need to be very careful with their stock, their drugs," she said.
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