Community
18 September, 2022
Rotary Club Cairns donates to RFDS
MEMBERS of a Rotary Club enjoy the benefits of visiting a variety of businesses and organisations and get a behind-the-scenes tour of their operations.
On Monday, August 29 the Rotary Club of Cairns Sunrise visited the Royal Flying Doctors Service (RFDS) base at the Cairns Airport.
Following a fascinating tour of the base and how the RFDS operates in an emergency, in carrying out clinics to remote locations and the tour was concluded with the Rotary Club donating $5,000 to be used in the Cairns RFDS base to provide for much needed equipment and resources to help improve their work.
The funds were raised from recent Palm Cove Markets held each month and operated by the Rotary Club of Cairns Sunrise.
In 2022, the Royal Flying Doctor Service is celebrating 50 years since the opening of the RFDS Cairns Base. From humble beginnings, the Base is now one of the largest in Australia, helping thousands of people in Far North Queensland every year.
It was the RFDS which was also instrumental in commencing the School of Distance Education.
Their emergency retrieval service operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, delivering the finest care to more than 330,000 Australians each year - that’s one person every two minutes.
In addition to aeromedical retrievals of the critically ill or injured, the RFDS also delivers a broad range of essential primary and preventative healthcare services, including telehealth, mental health, oral health and health promotion.
People can donate to support the work of the RFDS in Far North Queensland at https://rfds-qld.giveeasy.org/general-donations or click https://bit.ly/3RDXy0E online.
