“People die in silence” | EUROtoday

It is a tragedy of little prevented, image of the hole which separates the neo-Caledonians from the remainder of the nationwide territory when it comes to entry to care. Saturday, February 8, a child untimely At residence, within the commune of Ponérihouen, waited eight hours earlier than with the ability to be transported to a hospital and owes its survival solely to the intervention of a liberal midwife residing 40 kilometers away. The fault of the closure of the Poindimié hospital on the east coast of the Grande Terre. While, on the opposite aspect of the mountain vary, the Koné hospital middle, an hour and fifteen minutes by highway, which nonetheless has an emergency service, couldn’t discover an ambulance capable of Take cost of a incubator. Impossible to mobilize the helicopter of the Samu de Noumea, 270 kilometers away: it can not fly at night time.

The new child, which weighs simply 1 kilo, is in coronary heart and respiratory misery. He can be positioned below oxygen due to the fabric acquired at his personal prices by Elodie Marnas, the one midwife on the East Coast, till the arrival of a Puma helicopter from the armed forces in New Caledonia: “We went back forty years back”laments the caregiver, who now not has the variety of infants born to her workplace, for lack of care construction on the east coast. “People die in silence”she says.

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