You mean they don’t have federally funded universal child health care and insurance? I thought the USA was the only nation in the world that doesn’t have efficient and affordable emergency health care for children.
Bless this child’s uncle, and the med-flight crews who helped & transported them.
Also can’t help noticing that that instead for crossing the ‘nearby border’ into Inodnesia for help, they opted for a very long and grueling trip to Aussie territory. No need to wonder why.
Well, he’d get better health care here than in Indonesia, anyway (although from what I know, the Indonesians would do their best) but besides anything else, PNG was an Australian territory until quite recently, and we still provide specialist support to them when needed under a variety of agreements (PNG-Australia Development Cooperation Strategy).
Well, that part of Indonesia is still just a bunch of jungle with primitive villages. However, there are several gold and copper mines on the island of New Guinea. Modern ones, run by Americans, Aussies, Canucks (not the diamond hand mucking stuff you see in Africa). However, eveything is so remote over there - a mine with a modern doctor might have been just as difficult to get to.
But yeah - what an Uncle! And she must be one tough little girl too!