Accra - Surgeons Dash To Save Boy (1959)

Title reads: “Surgeons dash to save boy“. Accra, Ghana. C/U of eight year old Rami Kaatz lying seriously injured after a car accident on a bed in Korle Bu Hospital in Accra. L/S Israel Embassy, Accra. C/U nameplate at the Embassy. M/S of amateur radio apparatus used by Mr. H. J. Best to call various parts of the world to summon help for the injured boy. Various shots Mr. Best (in shorts) and Joseph Mannut being interviewed by man from radio Ghana. Joseph Mannut used radio to speak to brain specialists in Tel Aviv, Israel. L/S United States Navy plane taxiing in at Accra Airport bringing two American Naval surgeons from navy base in Morocco. Various shots of two American surgeons leaving the airport. They are Lieutenant Commander Altman (brain specialist) and Navy Surgeon Mercer. M/S doctors and surgeons from various parts of the world holding consultation round the hospital bed of Rami Kaatz. M/S one of the surgeons examining the boy’s eyes while a black nurse checks his pulse. C/U boy’s fath