This was in yesterdays Jakarta Post and I could not wait for the online edition this morning so I could add this!
Priceless!
A solitary volunteer doctor working in Nias Selatan has been waiting for over a year and a half to get permission to fly his helicopter.
He brought it here to help poor people in emergency health situations, as local boats are not always available and are too expensive for poor people.
It seems there is no government provision for the use of a free service like this. Being the only doctor among 45,000 people, his time and medicines are all free.
Can we continue to allow Dr. Derek Allen to be without his helicopter, when at no cost to the Indonesian government he is willing to donate the use of his chopper for free?
JEANNIE MCLEOD Medan, North Sumatra
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