‘It was like Vietnam’s Mekong Delta with fewer boats’: A GP’s journey into the flood disaster
Dr Cam Hollows, the son of Fred, says people are still living in tents, shelters and cars
Dr Cam Hollows, the son of Dr Fred Hollows, treated people in flood-ravaged Coraki, in northern NSW, as the flood crisis unfolded.
The real disaster, he says, has been the failed response from the government. This is his story.
I’d been covering the Catholic hospital in Lismore for the first couple of days of the floods. With many other doctors cut off, we’d been treating patients offloaded from boats.
When I heard that Ballina District Hospital was being evacuated on 1 March to higher ground, I threw my medical kit in the back of a four-wheel drive.
