Medical Mercy Flight - March 6, 2008

In addition to the life-saving emergency flights we routinely do, Great Commission Air sometimes provides "mercy flights" for medical patients in delicate condition, such as the two featured in this video.

The request came on succeeding days from families to return their post-operative family members after treatment at the regional hospital in Coban. These trips normally have take eight hours, much of it on extremely rough roads, in the back of a pickup truck.

The male patient had received a hernia operation and was returned to Xalbal, just south of our base in Mayalan (without further damage).

The woman had received a c-section, but her baby was gravely ill and had to be sent to Guatemala City, where it will remain for some time. She and her mother were returned to Flor Del Norte, only a few miles north of our base in Mayalan.

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