[Canadian health service airplane ambulance]
- Collection:
- Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
- Contributor(s):
- Almasy, Paul, photographer
- Language(s):
- English French
- Format:
- Still image
- Subject(s):
- Transportation of Patients Public Health World Health Organization
- Abstract:
- Exterior view: two people are carrying a patient on a stretcher to an awaiting airplane. Verso: The world's most expensive citizens. Canada spends an annual $23 million for the health for her 12,000 Eskimos. When to the familiar ills of hunger, cold and accidents wre added civilization's tuberculosis, syphillis and polio, the eskimos started to die out; but now their numbers are increasing. Services are expensive because the population is widely scattered. To fetch a distant emergency patient by plane may cost as much as $4,000.
- Copyright:
- WHO must be mentioned in the accompanying text and/or given credit. This item may be under copyright protection. Please ask copyright owner for permission before publishing.
- Copyright Holder:
- World Health Organization; Source: Record; Research date: 20151005
- Extent:
- 1 photoprint.
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101436838 (See catalog record)
- NLM Image ID:
- A013756
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101436838