RADIO AID
PATIENT IN ALBERTA WILDS
MONTREAL,; November 10
A 24-year-pld man suffering agonising heart attacks imja rude hut iu Yellow Knife mining camp, in the wilds of Alberta, was treated by radio, over a distance of more than 800 miles.
Operators at the camp, which is on the fringe of the Arctic Circle, exchanged messages with a doctor at Alberta. The battle for the patient’s life continues.
Although the camp is within the frigid zone, the winter is not yet far enough advanced to permit of a skishod plane making a landing within a great distance of where the patient lies.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1936, Page 2
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