ISOLATED AUSTRALIA.
ROMANTIC SYSTEM OF GIVING
MEDICAL AID.
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 22. An advanced and romantic system of giving medical aid in the isolated interior of Australia, will be put into operation shortly, as a result of co-op-eration between the British Medical Association and the Australian authorities. Six doctors, receiving £BOO to £IOOO each, with six aeroplanes, will wait at their stations for telegraph or wireless calls for aid. Six missions and eleven hospitals in the interior will thus be linked up. The doctors will make no charge and the aeroplanes will be free of charge when used as ambulances. The. loneliest stockman can now call a doctor, who will arrive within a few hours. The service is (/pedallv resigned to deal with maternity cases in isolated marts.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 26 July 1927, Page 5
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130ISOLATED AUSTRALIA. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 26 July 1927, Page 5
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