Operation PADANG ASSIST
13 October 2009
ADF medical facility in Sungai Geringging village
An ADF medical facility has been established in Sungai Geringging village, 75 kilometres northwest of Padang, on request of the Indonesian authorities, to provide health support in the outlying region. The facility can provide general and emergency health care and environmental health support from a team consisting of doctors, nurses and environmental health officers from the 1st Health Support Battalion.
| 20091011adf8208022_080 Australian Defence Force personnel talk with AusAID representatives about a possible site for building a semi-permanent health care facility in the village of Sungai Geringging. (Date taken: 11 October 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20091011adf8208022_092 Australian Defence Force personnel talk with AusAID representatives about a possible site for building a semi-permanent health care facility in the village of Sungai Geringging. (Date taken: 11 October 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20091011adf8208022_098 AusAID's Asep (left) and Stacey Greene talk with Lieutenant Colonel Neil Sweeney about a possible site for building a semi-permanent health care facility in the village of Sungai Geringging. (Date taken: 11 October 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20091011adf8208022_101 AusAID's Alan March talks with Major Michael Scott about a possible site for building a semi-permanent health facility in the village of Sungai Geringging. (Date taken: 11 October 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20091011adf8208022_141 Lieutenant Colonel Neil Sweeney discusses the Primary Health Care Facility with AusAID's Nick Brockhoff, Tamarand Cresswell and Steven Yates in Singai Geringging. (Date taken: 11 October 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20091011adf8208022_186 Medical Technician, Corporal Sean O'Regan, unwraps bandages on a local at the Australian Defence Force Primary Health Care Facility in Sungai Geringging village, West Sumatra. (Date taken: 11 October 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20091011adf8208022_194 Lieutenant Nick Cockrell treats a local after he was struck in the head by a falling pinecone in the village of Sungai Geringging. (Date taken: 11 October 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20091011adf8208022_200 AusAID representatives talk with Lieutenant Colonel Lachlan Sinclair, Commanding Officer of 1 Health Support Battalion, about the Primary Health Care Facility he has set up in the village of Sungai Geringging. (Date taken: 11 October 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20091011adf8208022_203 A father watches on as Corporal Vinson Kumar treats his son under supervision from Captain Steven Markowskei at the Australian Defence Force Primary Health Care Facility in Sungai Geringging. (Date taken: 11 October 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20091011adf8208022_208 Corporal Vinson Kumar watches as Captain Steven Markowskei inserts stitches in a patient at the Australian Defence Force Primary Health Care Facility in Sungai Geringging. (Date taken: 11 October 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20091011adf8208022_213 Corporal Vinson Kumar watches as Captain Steven Markowskei insert stitches in a patient at the Australian Defence Force Primary Health Care Facility in Sungai Geringging. (Date taken: 11 October 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20091011adf8208022_221 Lieutenant Nick Cockrell takes the blood pressure of a local in the Australian Defence Force Primary Health Care Facility in the village of Sungai Geringging. (Date taken: 11 October 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20091011adf8208022_228 AusAID's Tamarand Cresswell assists Australian Defence Force (ADF) medical personnel in looking after a local in the ADF Primary Health Care Facility in Sungai Geringging. (Date taken: 11 October 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20091011adf8208022_240 AusAID's Tamarand Cresswell and Nick Brockhoff attend to a village elder with assistance from Lieutenant Nick Cockrell in Sungai Geringging. (Date taken: 11 October 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20091011adf8208022_254 Medical Technician Corporal Sean O'Regan grabs a dressing whilst treating a local boy in the Australian Defence Force Primary Health Care Facilty in the village of Sungai Geringging. (Date taken: 11 October 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20091011adf8208022_330 Australian Defence Force Primary Health Care Facility in Sungai Geringging village, Indonesia. This image is a 180 degree digitally stitched panoramic. (Date taken: 11 October 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |















