Radio And Aviation
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In The Islands
From Our Own Correspondent
A Papeete, Sept. 28.
RADIO from Raiatea in September advised that a man was dangerously ill, with appendicitis.
At 11.30 a.m., an aeroplane left. At 1.30 it was in Uturoa (Raiatea). At 2.30 it left with the patient, and Papeete was told by radio to have an ambulance ready. Soon after 4.30, the patient was in hospital; and he is now nearly better.
Radio and aviation have transformed Islands communications. A few years ago, the . two or three days needed to get the patient to the hospital almost certainly would have caused his death.