The Naval Role 3 Medical Facility at the Kandahar Air Field supports the coalition troops currently deployed on ISAF operations in the Zabul, Uruzgan and Kandahar regions.
It’s the 1st NATO hospital in the whole of Afghanistan it has a high medical capability it’s the most advanced hospital in Regional Command South it supports all of the operations in this region.
One of the busiest medical facilities in Afghanistan, it has 270 clinical professionals from the five member nationals working there with an average of 80 surgical cases a week, about 400 medical cases a week 1000 in-patients scripts in the pharmacy over 5000 lab tests, over 1000 x-rays and digital scans.
At the moment, there are five Australians currently offering their services to the Role 3 Medical Facility.
Australia’s contribution to the Role 3 Medical Facility was recently recognised with the Australian flag being raised on the quarterdeck in the foyer of the medical facility as being a positive contributor in the efforts to save the lives of coalition troops wounded or injured in the line of duty.
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Sergeant Bernadette Rogash shares a laugh with coalition Trauma Room medical staff at the Role 3 medical facility in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
(Date taken: 11 October 2010)
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Sergeant Bernadette Rogash takes a photo of a young Afghan boy wounded by an Improvised Explosive Devise in the children’s ward at the Role 3 Medical Facility in Kandahar.
(Date taken: 12 October 2010)
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Sergeant Bernadette Rogash takes a photo of a young Afghan girl prior to surgery. Sergeant Bernadette Rogash an energetic mother of two spends a lot of her time in the children’s ward helping out and playing with the children at the Role 3 Medical Facility in Kandahar.
(Date taken: 12 October 2010)
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Sergeant Bernadette Rogash talks to a young Afghan girl who lost one of her arms to an Improvised Explosive Devise in the children's ward prior to surgery. Sergeant Bernadette Rogash an energetic mother of two helps out in the Primary Care Unit caring for coalition soldiers, Afghan Nationals and examining Afghan females.
(Date taken: 12 October 2010)
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Sergeant Bernadette Rogash wheels a young Afghan girl with her father close by back to the children's ward prior to surgery. Sergeant Bernadette Rogash helps out in the Primary Care Unit caring for coalition soldiers, Afghan Nationals and examining Afghan females.
(Date taken: 12 October 2010)
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Sergeant Bernadette Rogash helps out in the Primary Care Unit assisting coalition medics on a U.S patient at the Role 3 Medical Facility in Kandahar.
(Date taken: 12 October 2010)
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Australian medics Sergeant Bernadette Rogash and Corporal David Cantwell prepare to receive patients from coalition medical helicopters at the landing zone outside the Role 3 medical facility in Kandahar.
(Date taken: 12 October 2010)
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Australian medics Corporal David Cantwell and Sergeant Bernadette Rogash prepare to receive patients from coalition medical helicopters at the landing zone outside the Role 3 medical facility in Kandahar.
(Date taken: 12 October 2010)
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Australian medics Corporal David Cantwell and Sergeant Bernadette Rogash prepare to receive patients from coalition medical helicopters at the landing zone outside the Role 3 medical facility in Kandahar.
(Date taken: 12 October 2010)
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Australian medics Sergeant Bernadette Rogash and Corporal David Cantwell prepare to receive patients from coalition medical helicopters at the landing zone outside the Role 3 medical facility in Kandahar.
(Date taken: 12 October 2010)
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Flight Lieutenant Bronte Douglas (centre) and Sergeant Bernadette Rogash (right) talk to a U.S coalition medic in the Trauma Room. Flight Lieutenant Bronte Douglas had to change into coalition attire after treating a trauma patient that afternoon in the Role 3 Medical Facility.
(Date taken: 12 October 2010)
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Sergeant Bernadette Rogash high-fives a young Afghan girl who lost one of her arms to an Improvised Explosive Devise blast. Sergeant Bernadette Rogash helps out in the Primary Care Unit caring for coalition soldiers, and Afghan Nationals.
(Date taken: 12 October 2010)
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Flight Lieutenant Bronte Douglas a Trauma Nurse from Darwin with her Role 3 Trauma Team at the medical facility in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
(Date taken: 12 October 2010)
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Flight Lieutenant Bronte Douglas a Trauma Nurse from Darwin helps out in the Role 3 medical facility in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
(Date taken: 12 October 2010)
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Sergeant Bernadette Rogash moves a coalition soldier wounded by an Improvised Explosive Devise into the Role 3 Trauma Room in Kandahar.
(Date taken: 13 October 2010)
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Sergeant Bernadette Rogash waits to move a coalition soldier wounded by an Improvised Explosive Devise into the Role 3 Trauma Room in Kandahar.
(Date taken: 13 October 2010)
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Australian medic Sergeant Bernadette and coalition medics prepare to receive patients from coalition medical helicopters at the landing zone outside the Role 3 Medical Facility in Kandahar.
(Date taken: 13 October 2010)
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Australian medics Corporal David Cantwell and Sergeant Bernadette Rogash watch on as a coalition soldier is treated by a Trauma Room medical team at the Role 3 medical facility in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
(Date taken: 13 October 2010)
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Sergeant Bernadette Rogash takes down patient information while coalition medical staff prepares a CT scan on a wounded soldier at the Role 3 Medical Facility in Kandahar.
(Date taken: 13 October 2010)
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Sergeant Bernadette Rogash takes down patient information while coalition medical staff prepares a CT scan on a wounded soldier at the Role 3 Medical Facility in Kandahar.
(Date taken: 13 October 2010)
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Sergeant Bernadette Rogash takes down patient information while coalition medical staff prepares a CT scan on a wounded soldier at the Role 3 Medical Facility.
(Date taken: 13 October 2010)
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Australian medics assist coalition medical staff treat a patient in the Role 3 Trauma Room in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
(Date taken: 13 October 2010)
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Sergeant Bernadette Rogash waits to move a coalition soldier wounded by an Improvised Explosive Devise into the Role 3 Trauma Room in Kandahar.
(Date taken: 13 October 2010)
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Sergeant Bernadette Rogash helps a coalition soldier wounded by an Improvised Explosive Devise into a waiting Role 3 ambulance in Kandahar.
(Date taken: 13 October 2010)
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Flight Lieutenant Denis French monitors an Afghan whose car was struck by an Improvised Explosive Devise in the Intensive Care Unit at the Role 3 medical facility in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
(Date taken: 13 October 2010)
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