Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 July 1950Vol. XX, No. 12

Life-Giving Blood Flown From Brisbane

p. 50 · Read in the full issue

Page 5050

Brisbane to Lae

ANOTHER unusual job was undertaken by Qantas Empire Airways last month when a DCS carried a con signment of a special B group blood from Brisbane to a man who was suffering from a blood condition in Lae, New Guinea.

A blood bank has been established at Port Moresby but it was not able to supply the rare type of blood needed in this case—only six per cent, of Australians are in this blood group.

The blood made the 1,596 mile flight packed in a special light-weight ice-chest.

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