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Two kids being transported from very different places. Yofani (top) bitten by a Fer-de-Lance in her sleep has gangrene in her arm. The other is in a coma from a head injury. Both going to Guatemala City in the GCA plane.
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| The new pilot, David Jay, checks the fuel level as I (Rob) secure our young patients and their caretakers on the airstrip at Mayalan.
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| Domingo Pacay Yat standing onthe airstrip in Xalala (shalala) where we landed yesterday. Please consider donating for his (and others) treatment.
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Most of our patients are women and children. Most maternity patients (like this one) will be transported to the city of Coban where a c-section can be performed.
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| David Jay prepares to depart the village of Latanya with a patient and her husband. This is a challenging departure through a narrow valley over a small river.
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| Transporting family members of our patient Yofani to Guatemala along with empty fuel containers. They really are as worrried as they look.
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| Snake bite victims - frequently bleeding profusely from the mouth, noses and even eyes rely on us to rapidly transport them to local sources of care and anti-venen.
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After transport to Playa Grande - A medic starts an IV for a woman in shock from hemmorage after a miscarriage in the remove village of Chiela. See Chiela airstrip to the right.
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| The airstrip at Chiela is 280 yards long and drops over 100' from end to end. Perched over a river valley and facing the steep slope of the opposite side. It allows us the serve an otherwise very isolated group of Mayans.
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| This kids just would not stop grinning despite a very delicate mulitple fracture of the left arm.
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| Women take the brunt of the hard life here in rural Guatemala. Un-named patient transported after being beaten.
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Precious Cargo. I am carrying a tiny baby hooked up to a giant oxygen cylinder. Hand respirated during its flight to Guatemala City from the rural town of Sayache, Peten.
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| We had to temporarily drop off this baby (and nurse) in order to pick up a woman in Latanya a few miles away - then return for the baby and continue.
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| Without GCA and YOUR SUPPORT, at best, babies like this are hand respirated for 8 or more hours during the road trip to Guatemala City. Longer than the oxygen supply. Many die for lack of transportation.
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| Patients are carried to the nearest airstrip by family, friends, nieghbors - sometimes the whole village. It is a touching scene.
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We almost never take a patient alone. Husband, sister, brothers always come to care for them in the hospital - because its necessary, not a luxury.
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| Matt Swanson (right from Potter's House) and missionary friends transported accross the country to retrieve a van for the family.
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