Volume 27, Number 2 - Wilderness Medical Society
Volume 27, Number 2 - Wilderness Medical Society
Volume 27, Number 2 - Wilderness Medical Society
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sion<br />
Congo<br />
Michael Hauty<br />
MD, FACS<br />
Photos courtesy of Michael Hauty<br />
The<br />
team was tightly squeezed into a white<br />
Toyota Land Cruiser making its way over<br />
a poorly maintained dirt road in eastern<br />
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).<br />
We were bound for the regional district<br />
hospital: Hopital General Referent-Rutshuru.<br />
The operations of the hospital have been<br />
a joint venture between the Congolese<br />
Ministry of Health and the French section<br />
of Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF), aka<br />
Doctors Without Borders, since 2005. The<br />
team, an international collection of health<br />
care providers, was leaving our residential<br />
compound for a busy day tending the needs<br />
of a traumatized local population.<br />
Dr. Michael Hauty with fellow<br />
"Rwandan warriors."<br />
WILDERNESS MEDICINE // Spring 2010<br />
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