Air National Guard evacuates sick baby from Western Alaska village A critically ill newborn was evacuated from a Western Alaska village by an Alaska Air National Guard crew Saturday after a private air ambulance couldn't get to the village because of weather and runway restrictions.
The two-week-old baby in New Stuyahok, a village of about 500 people northeast of Dillingham on the Nushagak River, was suffering from neonatal pneumonia ....... The Alaska Air National Guard launched a HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter and an HC-130 airplane as a refueling escort to New Stuyahok at around 1 a.m......
Note that the only medical care available in many Alaska villages is from a
Community Health Aid. Great folks, but with only about 16 weeks of training. For anything serious, they need to fly to Anchorage. When the weather is bad (as it frequently is), they can't fly.
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