Dunk Island Sponsors Vehicle in Royal Flying Doctor Service Outback Car Trek |
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Dunk Resort Pty Ltd is proudly supporting the Royal Flying Doctor Service through sponsorship of one of the vehicles participating in this year’s Outback Car Trek - www.outbackcartrek.com.au – a gruelling journey over a week travelling 3,740km through outback Australia from Hay to Airlie Beach.
The Trek’s itinerary is
The car’s progress can be followed though their blog at http://car144.posterous.com/ RFDS is recognised nationally and internationally as the great saviour of the Outback - the lifeline to those for whom medical services would otherwise be almost non-existent. What is not as widely understood is that people from the cities are becoming increasingly dependent on the Service.
As an increasing number of employees and families travel to country areas on business or holidays, the RFDS is called to attend to more and more city people. We all enter ‘RFDS Territory’ less than an hour’s drive from most capital cities. Emergency services, including attending to road accident victims, are free and do not discriminate between residents of city or country. As Australians we are lucky to have the world’s oldest, largest, most experienced and comprehensive aerial health and emergency service at our disposal. To run this service requires more than $110 million a year and, although there is Government funding, it does not cover the replacement of aircraft, and the RFDS needs to raise over $25 million in public donations each year. In 1990, the Flying Doctor Outback Trek was established to raise money for this worthy cause, and since then in the vicinity of $15 million has been raised. |
