British-born Flight Nurse Barbara Thompson listens to a Native American patient’s breathing in the ER at the San Carlos Apache reservation hospital. British-born Barbara has worked as a nurse in the UK and US for 20 years and listens to her patient’s lungs with a stethoscope as they poor lady lays back on a gurney with an oxygen line to help her difficulties. San Carlos is a 1.8m acre area of scrub and tiny settlements 100 miles east of Phoenix, Arizona with an 11,000 population, its hospital attracting patients from a radius of 20 miles. By flying her she can have far better specialist care at the Indian Medical Center in Phoenix than can be provided in San Carlos who have only a few doctors and four beds. Native American Air Ambulance (NAAA) is the brainchild of Okalahoma native Cherokee Rick Heape Williams.
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