Year of Production: 2003
Duration: 4 x 26 minutes
A four part observational series that follows the doctors and nurses who work with NETS, a neo-natal and paediatric emergency transport service providing mobile intensive care for critically ill children.
Handle with Care follows the work of NETS, a mobile intensive care service for Australian children and babies. Meet a cast of dynamic doctors and nurses who work at the frontline of medical rescue.
Covering an area of 800,000 square kilometres and 6.4 million people, the NETS teams travel by helicopter, plane or road ambulance to the bedside of a sick child. Bringing intensive care to stabilise the child before transporting them to more specialised help means the child’s chances of survival is dramatically increased.
For the families in this series, this is one of the most confronting experiences they will ever have to face. For the NETS team, saving children’s lives happens every day.
Broadcast: SBS-TV, YLE Finland, SBS6 The Netherlands.
SBS, 15/2/2004
SBS, 22/2/2004
SBS, 29/2/2004
SBS, 07/3/2004
An Iris Pictures Production. Financed with the assistance of the NSW Film and Television Office. Produced in association with SBS Independent.
producer Mary-Ellen Mullane
director Jessica Douglas-Henry
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