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My colleagues used to tell me about [br]flying with helicopters

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they're frightened of bad weather and [br]other things.

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But I'm motivated to do it and feel [br]the challenge.

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Way before I returned to Papua, I had a [br]dream

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that some day I would become a doctor [br]who flies all over to remote areas.

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And that dream came true.

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<i>PEARL IN THE NOKEN</i>

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I joined the Baliem Mission Centre (BMC)

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In the organizational structure, I'm the [br]medical manager.

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We have a bimonthly schedule.

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We visit some areas already under [br]BMC's purview and try to expand to more.

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First, we go North,

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to the Kaimana area.

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There, we'll find Esrotnaba lake.

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It's the center for our services. And [br]second, to the South, the Korowai area.

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We have strong connections with Helivida.

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Helivida is an organization that serves [br]and helps all of Papua's remote areas.

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In one of my trips, I flew with a Helivida [br]pilot, Pilot Erwin.

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We were flying at around 12 noon

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because there was an emergency Medivac [br](Medical Evacuation) mission

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to one of the small villages

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near the border of Oksibil and Boven [br]Digul.

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It's about 2 hours and 20 minutes from [br]Wamena.

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And the trip to Boven Digul requires [br]passing a mountainous area near Kurima,

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Iberoma, Tama, and there are strong winds.

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Suddenly, many clouds blew in and covered [br]the mountains, so we couldn't see anything

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and we couldn't fly any higher.

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So we followed the river of Baliem, followed [br]it up. But it was raining heavily.

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I stayed quiet.

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Then the pilot said "Doctor Mia,

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please do not worry, we need to thank [br]God for giving us this heavy rain.

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That means I don't have to clean this [br]chopper anymore

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because God is cleaning it from heaven".

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Yes, immediately my stress disappeared.

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Everyday, I'm working at the hospital and [br]if suddenly there's a

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Medivac calling from Helivida

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I have to be on stand-by.

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And at any time, whether it's good [br]weather or bad, if there's a call

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if there's a pilot ready, I need to get [br]ready to fly to evacuate patients.

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Mum, here mum.

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He and I were nurses

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who helped patients

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up in remote areas.

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Even in the remote areas

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where people are afraid to enter.

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But he and I

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we have given our all to serve [br]these people.

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I get my spirit from my parents.

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Ever since I was a child, there was always [br]a request for my father at my house to

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conduct operations

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He had to travel from night until morning,[br]often without rest.

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If there was a patient who needed an [br]operation, and the doctor called

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he needed to leave to help assist.

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Besides these complicated operations, [br]there was often a Medivac from the

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MAF (Mission Aviation Fellowship).

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He went straight away and left us [br]for days.

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So here's a community, they've gathered [br]so I can conduct an examination.

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I've given them basic immunisation.

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I stayed and worked there.

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This is the local medical centre where [br]I worked for them.

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<i>It's from the old days, so only black [br]and white, not colour like mine.</i>

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<i>There was a journey from Karumbaga [br]to Bokondini. That's far.</i>

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<i>It's quite far.</i>

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So we needed to put Mia inside of a noken [br](a cloth to carry a child).

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Because she was still so small.

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If she was thirsty

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I needed to put her down and feed her [br]some milk

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and then continue to walk.

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We put her in a noken, and we climbed [br]a mountain.

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It was hard to carry her on the shoulder.

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To climb, it's difficult. And the path was [br]covered by trees.

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So many trees hit our heads, and many [br]other things.

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So we couldn't move fast.

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But with the Noken, we can walk fast.

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Even when we climb up a mountain, we can [br]hold on to a root.

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Easy, right?

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I have an story from when I was working in [br]Wamena in 2009, and began to work in the

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Emergency Hospital there.

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Suddenly a fight occurred between some [br]tribes.

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And many of these victims were carried to [br]the Emergency Hospital in Wamena.

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A senior nurse came and just touched my [br]head like this.

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Yes, I understood what it meant.

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She just held and touched my head like [br]this.

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It means that she has once carried me in [br]her Noken.

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And that her head had once carried me.

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I need to return all the kindness that's [br]been given to me by my sisters and

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brothers, who I call the hands of God.

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Money will never be enough.

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I must return all the kindness and love [br]that they've given to me.

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I'm giving it back to all the people I've [br]ever treated.

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I don't have any passion to start my own [br]medical business

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to make money from my patients

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just to take care of my own welfare.

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No.

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For me, a doctor is a healer.

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That's all.