A wing and a prayer: flying doctors and the struggle to access healthcare in remote Australia

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A wing and a prayer: flying doctors and the struggle to access healthcare in remote Australia
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Helen Kidd caught the mail plane to Brisbane to take her daughter Belle to hospital, but when the worst happened she relied on volunteer organisations

, but the remainder comes from commercial funding, donations and bequests. Donations dropped 24% in 2020-2021 and recovered slightly last year, but not to pre-pandemic levels.“With such a large continent and small relative population in Australia, the tyranny of distance is always going to be a challenge when it comes to health care access,” says Lana Mitchell from RFDS.

Foran spent three days in Dubbo Hospital and was about to be discharged when a visiting locum from Royal Prince Alfred Hospital noticed she couldn’t walk straight and arranged an emergency CT scan. Helen Kidd says the sound of the RFDS plane coming in to land brought calm in her daughter Belle’s last days.“I was given steroids to shrink the brain tumour and then, via caesarean section, I gave birth to Jake. He was born with a hole in his lung, hyper insulin anaemia and jaundice.

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