Every year, in the 26 countries MAF serves, pilots from the Christian aviation charity carry out hundreds of medical emergency flights for ill and injured people and women facing pregnancy complications.
In Suriname, the organisation’s experience of life-saving medevacs proved vital when MAF Country Director and Chief Pilot Andy Bijkerk had to carry out an urgent flight.
Andy says he’s grateful for the experienced nurse who accompanied him. ‘Arriving at Botopasi,’ he explains, ‘I saw the expectant mother lying on a stretcher. It was obvious she was about to give birth!’
