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The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS), commonly known as the Flying Doctor, is an air medical service in Australia.It is a non-profit organisation that provides emergency and primary health care services for those living in rural, remote and regional areas of Australia who cannot access a hospital or general practice due to the vast distances of the Outback.
During World War I, air transport was used to provide medical evacuation – either from frontline areas or the battlefield itself.. In 1928, in Australia, John Flynn founded the Flying Doctor Service (later the Royal Flying Doctor Service), to provide a wide range of medical services to civilians in remote areas; these included from routine consultations with travelling general practitioners ...
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Royal Flying Doctor Service - operates a fleet of 16 B200s, 10 B200Cs, one B200GT, two B300Cs and four B350Cs. [31] [32] Canada. Carson Air Ltd. - currently operates a fleet of eight B350s. All aircraft are flown under contract for the British Columbia Emergency Health Services. They currently have 13 B360HWC aircraft on order. Iceland
Australian drama “RFDS: Royal Flying Doctor Service” has been sold to a range of global broadcasters including PBS in the U.S. and Channel 4 in the U.K. It has also been acquired by Sweden’s ...
StateLibQld 2 185175 Members of the Royal Flying Doctor Service and friends picnicking at Cloncurry, 1937. Salome Jean White (1905 – 15 July 1974) was the first female flying medical doctor in Australia and the world when she commenced work with the Australian Inland Mission in May 1937.
The use of HF between Outback travellers goes back many years, based on Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) frequencies such as 5300, 5360 and 5410 kHz. “Mobile Outpost” licenses allow the use of RFDS frequencies outside of base hours; increasing numbers of users concerned the RFDS, which, in 1992, requested the Department of Transport and Communications to limit the general use of their ...