Heart and Soul: Flying Doctor in the Land of Hornbills

The FDS team (comprising a community nurse, midwife, doctor and health assistant) in Sarawak in the 1980s. Photos: Dr Loh Yunn Hua

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The Flying Doctor Service (FDS) under the Health Department of Sarawak, was set up to provide medical treatment, vaccinations and care of pregnant mothers in rural Sarawak. Many of these rural areas were only accessible then by rivers and undeveloped roads.