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The Royal Flying Doctor Service provides an invaluable service to our community and so do you everytime you submit a recommended profile with the IDEXX Refernce Laboratory

We are excited to announce that we are continuing our relationship with the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) and will be supporting them with their incredible work.

IDEXX is proud to support RFDS by contributing 50 cents from every recommended profile submitted to IDEXX Reference Laboratories to help keep their crews in the air – 24 hours a day – 365 days a year. To highlight how invaluable the service that the RFDS provides to everyday Australians, here are some quick facts: 

• The RFDS was founded by Reverend John Flynn on 15 May 1928, after Flynn was left a large bequest for ‘an aerial experiment’. This enabled Flynn to establish the Australian Inland Mission Aerial Medical Service (later to be renamed the Royal Flying Doctor Service).
• The first ‘Flying Doctor’ took flight two days later on 17 May 1928 from Cloncurry, Queensland, in a single engine aircraft leased from Qantas at a cost of two shillings per mile flown.
• In 1944 the RFDS collaborated with the Reserve Bank of Australia on the design of the Australian twenty dollar note, to feature the face of Reverend John Flynn.
• Last year the RFDS provided over 330,000 episodes of health care across Australia – equivalent to assisting someone every two minutes.
• In addition to the provision of essential primary health care services to rural and remote communities, the RFDS conducts over 100 aeromedical missions every day.
• Last year the RFDS fleet of 71 aircraft flew almost 27 million kilometres – equivalent to 34 trips to the moon and back, or more than 600 flights around the Earth. 
• The RFDS operates 23 aeromedical bases, 124 healthcare vehicles, five remote primary health nurse clinics and manages 2,338 medical chests located in isolated communities and has likely helped care for a veterinary colleague or livestock producer in a community you know.

IDEXX Marketing Team

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