| The East African Flying Doctor Service, Nairobi, Kenya, consists of five aircraft and a small band of doctors and nurses. It serves rural areas of Uganda and Tanzania as well as those of Kenya. Staff are alerted by radio messages and are flown to the site of an emer?gency where they perform on-the-spot surgery or ar?range to have the patient flown into Nairobi for treat?ment. Some 14 000 radio calls and 400 flights (amounting to .25 million miles)are made per year. During routine safaris to remote areas, family planning advice is given, but because of the status that goes with childbearing it is not well received. The service is pres?ently seeking funds to build a hangar for its aircraft. |