Mother survives childbirth after rescue by company staff

A PURARI woman survived a difficult labour involving twins following an emergency rescue by Oil Search in a remote area in Gulf.
According to a statement from Oil Search Ltd, the 26-year-old mother from Subu village had gone into labour before she could reach a health centre.
“One of her twins was lying in a transverse position that could prove fatal for her and the baby,” the statement said.
“After the woman successfully delivered the first baby, she went into obstructed labour which lasted for more than five hours.
“Fearing for the worst, her relatives alerted the Oil Search medical and community affairs (CA) staff at the Eastern Fold Belt (EFB) Staging Camp.
“A team comprising two medical staff and a CA officer was immediately dispatched to the location where they set up intravenous fluid and helped to resuscitate the mother.
“They then transported her in a basket stretcher with the help of Pacific Projects Logistics boat crew and onto an awaiting boat which took her up the Purari River reaching the EFB Seismic Clinic.
“There a waiting helicopter took her to the Kapuna Rural Hospital 58km away for urgent medical assistance.
Two hours later, the woman delivered her second baby successfully.”
Since commencing its seismic project in December 2017, Oil Search has conducted 95 mobile health clinics into remote villages reaching more than 2,300 patients.
Patients found to have serious illnesses were referred to hospitals for further management.
Apart from assisting with emergency medevacs (medical evacuations) such as childbirth and life-threatening traumatic injuries, three snake bite (deadly Death Adder) victims were also treated at the Oil Search clinic with anti-venom.