Pakistan

21 October 2010
A team of five Air Force Environmental Health officers are currently deployed on Operation Pakistan Assist II

A team of five Air Force Environmental Health officers are currently deployed on Operation Pakistan Assist II performing the vital role of keeping Camp Cockatoo healthy.

Air Force Environmental Health Officers are public health and hygiene specialists whose main focus is to ensure Australian Defence Force work environments remain healthy on deployments. In addition, the team is regularly assessing any possible environmental impacts that the Australian Medical Task Force may have on the local Kot Addu area and taking appropriate steps to minimize them.

 

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Testing water for impurities and contaminants is Environmental Health Officer, Flying Officer Daniel Wressell, 2 Expeditionary Health Squadron, at the Australian Medical Task Force health centre in Kot Addu.

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Environmental Health Officers, Flying Officer Evie Sharman (centre), 3 Expeditionary Health Squadron, Flying Officer Daniel Wressell (right), 2 Expeditionary Health Squadron, and Squadron Leader Shane Murphy (left) 3 Expeditionary Health Squadron, dip uniforms in a trunk containing water diluted with the insect repellent, Perigen.

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Environmental Health Officers, Flying Officer Evie Sharman (left), 3 Expeditionary Health Squadron, and Flying Officer Daniel Wressell, 2 Expeditionary Health Squadron, dip uniforms in a trunk containing water diluted with the insect repellent, Perigen.

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Environmental Health Officers, Flight Lieutenant Sonya Beyer (right), and Flying Officer Daniel Wressel (centre), both from 2 Expeditionary Health Squadron, walk down to a nearby lake from Camp Cockatoo to take water samples.

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Environmental Health Officers, Flight Lieutenant Sonya Beyer (right), and Flying Officer Daniel Wressel, both from 2 Expeditionary Health Squadron, take water samples from a lake near Camp Cockatoo.

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Environmental Health Officer, Flight Lieutenant Sonya Beyer, 2 Expeditionary Health Squadron, tests water samples from a tap supplied by Australian Defence, outside of Camp Cockatoo in Kot Addu.

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Environmental Health Officer, Flight Lieutenant Sonya Beyer, 2 Expeditionary Health Squadron, takes water samples from a tap supplied by Australian Defence, outside of Camp Cockatoo in Kot Addu.

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Environmental Health Officer, Flight Lieutenant Sonya Beyer, 2 Expeditionary Health Squadron, walks around Camp Cockatoo with a fogging machine, used to minimise the mosquito population in the camp.

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Environmental Health Officer, Flight Lieutenant Sonya Beyer, 2 Expeditionary Health Squadron, walks around Camp Cockatoo with a fogging machine, used to minimise the mosquito population in the camp.

(Date taken: 08 October 2010)
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Air Force Environmental Health Officer, Squadron Leader Greg Harrington, 2 Expeditionary Health Squadron, takes readings from the Thermal Environment Monitor outside the Australian Medical Task Force health centre in Kot Addu.

(Date taken: 08 October 2010)
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Air Force Environmental Health Officer, Squadron Leader Shane Murphy, 2 Expeditionary Health Squadron, sets up a mosquito trap outside the Australian Medical Task Force health centre in Kot Addu.

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Environmental Health Officer, Flying Officer Evie Sharman, 3 Expeditionary Health Squadron, decontaminating and disinfecting patients beds outside the Australian Defence Force health centre in Kot Addu.

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Environmental Health Officer, Flying Officer Evie Sharman, 3 Expeditionary Health Squadron, testing a young Pakistani patient for malaria inside the Australian Defence Force health centre in Kot Addu.

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Environmental Health Officer, Flying Officer Daniel Wressell, 2 Expeditionary Health Squadron, spraying for spiders around the accommodation area of Camp Cockatoo.

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