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Air Mercy Services

by John Robinson

Through a joint project of The South African Red Cross Air Mercy Services and The South African Department of Health or Health KWAZULU-NATAL, orthopedic technicians are flown to the outlying and remote South African Government Health Services orthopaedic/physiotherapy clinics at government hospitals in the far northern KwaZulu-Natal region of South Africa.

The South African Red Cross Air Mercy Service is a registered NGO that provides the State health services and members of the public with specialized medical flight services. This access to expert orthopedic care for the out patients at the Mnaguzi, Mosfold and Bethesda Government Hospitals has meant access to the special care needed by those who from birth, illness and or physical trauma are left with a very real need for orthopedic care and or prosthetic assistance. The hills, fields and plains of far northern kwazulu-natal region are isolated, and the infrastructure is not good. The work carried out in these clinics provides the walkers, irons and prosthetics that make a change to those who with out this service would literally be left to stumble on with their lives in a place that is less then conducive to those with less then a perfect body. The clinics that this co-operation facilitates has helped children to walk upright, corrected small defects for others and allowed, for example, a subsistence farmer the ability to manage the planting of her personal field of beans and to another the restored pride to provide for his family once again.

John Robinson On behalf of Air Mercy Service

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