Image Gallery 2009
11 March 2009
Australian surgical team in Afghanistan
Australia is currently providing a Surgical and Intensive Care team to the International Security and Assistance Force in Afghanistan. The team is working the Dutch-led Role 2 Hospital Facility based in Camp Holland near Tarin Kowt in Uruzgan Province.
The hospital is staffed by Dutch, Australian and Singaporean Defence medical specialists. The team which is a mixture of both regular and reserve specialists deploy on a two month rotational basis, providing surgical and intensive care expertise for both coalition soldiers and local casualties whose injuries are too acute for treatment by local medical centres.
| 20090227ara8502859_0075 Australian Surgical Team, Captain Elizabeth Anderson (right) conducts serviceability checks with Corporal Andre Hammond (left) on the surgical equipment at the state of the art medical facility based in Camp Holland. (Date taken: 07 March 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20090227ara8502859_0078 Australian Surgical Team, Captain Elizabeth Anderson (right) conducts serviceability checks with Corporal Andre Hammond (left) on the surgical equipment at the state of the art medical facility based in Camp Holland. (Date taken: 07 March 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20090227ara8502859_0083 “On the Mend”; Major Rob Baird (right) from the Australian Surgical Team based in Tarin Kowt, checks on the condition of a young Afghan patient who was treated at the military hospital after the local hospital was unable to help with his injures. (Date taken: 07 March 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20090227ara8502859_0086 “On the Mend”; Major Rob Baird (right) from the Australian Surgical Team based in Tarin Kowt, chats with the father (left) of a young Afghan patient about his condition after he was treated at the military hospital after the local hospital was unable to help with his injures. (Date taken: 07 March 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20090227ara8502859_0094 Australian Surgical Team, Colonel Susan Neuhaus (left) gives a young Afghan patient a toy to play with during her rounds of the Dutch-led Role 2 Hospital ward based in Camp Holland near Tarin Kowt, Afghanistan. (Date taken: 07 March 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20090307adf8185016_0008 General Surgeon Captain Keith Towsey (centre), from the Australian Surgical Team working with Dutch and Singaporean Defence medical specialists in the Dutch-led Role 2 Hospital Facility based in Camp Holland. (Date taken: 07 March 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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