A MAN made a desperate four-day journey from the New Guinea highlands to Cairns carrying a six-year-old girl who was suffering horrific abdominal injuries.
Forty-year-old farmer Iambai Pisau was called to his niece’s PNG village school on the border of Indonesia last Thursday after she fell out of a classroom window and landed on a sharp hibiscus tree, The Cairns Post reports.
The fall pierced young Dulcie Nakai’s abdomen, exposing her intestines.
Mr Pisau took his niece to their remote PNG village’s first aid post by canoe only to find the medical officer away for the night.
He treated his niece as best he could using a bandage and Panadol before the pair endured a five-hour ambulance ride to another PNG town, Morehead, last Friday.
From Morehead, the two travelled eight hours in a tinnie, which constantly broke down, before spending the night in a bush hut at the mouth of a crocodile-infested river.
On Sunday, it was another four hours in the dinghy to get to Boigu Island, in the Torres Strait.
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