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As flight nurse, Simmonds shares a story of a situation where a young child was denied aid from their team and when given permission to help it was too late!
Transcription
I remember one case in particular this kid, a little girl. She was only about seven or eight, I guess. We got the message to go pick her up. She had a punctured lung and she had some upper respiratory problems and a lot of lacerations from explosive devices. And mostly on the upper body and in that area and she had fractured ribs, broken arm and other things. Anyway the first time we went over to get her we got landed. I went in to screen to make sure she could still be able to make the flight over. And we got another message that we weren’t allowed to take her. The kids at the time, the two factions in Sarajevo would often use them as bartering tools. And, of course, they would come to an agreement and we would have to go up to Sarajevo and then everything would be administratively from there. And sometimes they would change their minds as with this girl. They’d change their minds and we couldn’t get them. On the third attempt we went over and we were finally able to take her. Of course there are days in between so by this time she had deteriorated quite a bit and I didn’t think she could make it back. We tried everything on the aircraft. We had to, you know, oxygen, keep her going and she was alive when she got off the aircraft and the Italian Red Cross picked her up, got her into the O.R. She was just not strong enough to make it. It breaks your heart because if we got her the first time.