Flying Bush Medicine - Kenya

April 1998
Dr Spoerry, known as Mama Daktari to the Maasai, is one of Kenya's most famous flying doctors.

At a staggering age of 82 she prefers to fly herself through the rift valley treating cholera, maleria and the ubiquitous diarrhea. For the past 35 years she has been flying to the remotest people in Kenya, to tend to, and evacuate the sick. Dr Spoerry takes to the air in her ricketty 20 year old plane equiped with 2 folding chairs and a big box of drugs in search of the shade of a tree. As Mama Daktari sets up her benevoelent bush clinics for the Masaii, Bettina Vadera, in contrast treats only the wealthy in a helicopter crowded with equipment. With Africa's ex-pat community willing to pay through the nose for their care, there's great money to be made from subscriptions for this flying doctor service. Set against the Kenyan Rift Valley planes this film takes an interesting look at the determination of one women to provide treatment for the most common diseases. Mama Daktari may have the un-nerving habit of falling asleep at the plane's controls but no one has the courage to suggest this doctor should stop flying.

Produced by ABC Australia
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures

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[OJpilotboy]

i love this women she inspires me!!

[erinlassley]

What is the name of that place that looks like it was built on top of mesa/flat part on top of the mountain?

[versosempapel]

very good video

very good people

there is still hope for this world !