TY  - JOUR
T1  - OVerseas medical aid
Y1  - 1969/09/08
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1969.03160230055016
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 1521
EP  - 1522
VL  - 209
IS  - 10
N2  - "Awo-Omamma is a small 80-bed hospital, sheltering 600 to 800 wounded lying perhaps two or three to a bed, but more often on the ground; the luckier ones have a mat. Sanitary installations are nonexistent; water is severely rationed. A minute operating room with two tables permits five patients to be operated on at the same time, after the addition of three trolleys.... Asepsis does not exist. The sterilizer rapidly broke down, and boiling is usually out of the question from lack of time or lack of water. This forces us to use the same syringe and instruments on three or four patients."2Such descriptions of primitive surgical conditions in an underdeveloped country at war are now familiar from the accounts given by the many doctors from the United States and other parts of the Free World who have been working in civilian hospitals in South Vietnam. The locale
SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1969.03160230055016
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1969.03160230055016
ER  -