PATIENT BY AIR
TRIP FROM PALMERSTON NORTH LESS THAN FOUR HOURS On Thursday aiternoloil last the Whakatane Ambulance acting on instructions from the Royal New Zealand Air Force, Ohakea, met a ’plane carrying a stretcher case at Tauranga aerodrome and conveyed the patient to the Whakatane Hospital. The ’plane left Ohakea aerodrome at 2.30 p.m. and landed at Tauranga at 4.10 p.m. The patient was transferred from the ’plane to the waiting ambulance and left the aerodrome at 4.25 p.m. arriving at the Whakatane Hospital at 6.15 p.m. The whole journey from Palmerston to Whakatane actually took 3 hours 45 minutes. This must constitute something of a record for swift and careful transport of a seriously ill patient over such a distance
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 10, 12 August 1946, Page 5
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122PATIENT BY AIR Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 10, 12 August 1946, Page 5
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