Great Commission Air - MedEvac March 10, 2008

San Marcos Rocnimac is a remote Mayan village that lies along the Rio Negro near the Siera Chama Mountains. They have no road and have called us on several occasions for emergency medical flights.

In this video, a woman is being carried by her family in a hammock to the GCA Skymaster, N538JP, for transport to the clinic in Playa Grande. Neither the husband nor the patient spoke Spanish, so another male family member went with me. As soon as we landed, they tried to make for the nearest witch doctor (Brujolo) but I cajoled them into going with the doctor in the ambulance that came to meet us at the airstrip.

Great Commission Air - MedEvac March 10

Flore del Norte is only a few miles north of our Base of Operations, Mayalan, in the Ixcan region of Quiché. We got a call to pick-up the man in this video who fell from the roof of a house (or a Coconut tree, depending on your Spanish). We suspected a spinal injury and were glad to help transport him to hospital. He was definitely in pain. A truck ride to Guatemala City would have been torturous.

The airstrip at Flore was recently renovated by the village, as a result of our encouragement, just for such emergencies. I flew over the village several times throwing leaflets out the window asking them to fix the airstrip - and it worked!

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