The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Sister Maureen Spicer, a member of the Australian Civilian Surgical/Medical Team, checking the intravenous drip of a wounded Vietnamese lying on a stretcher on the floor of the recovery ward after surgery. The recovery ward had only five beds and it was not uncommon to have several patients to a bed and a number of stretchers on the floor. The patients were looked after by the Australian nurses in the recovery ward until they were considered well enough to be tranferred to the wards.
Sister Dorothy Angell (back, right) and Sister Pamela Matenson (front, right), both members of the Australian Civilian Surgical/Medical Team, transporting a patient from the surgical suite to the ward
A Vietnamese mother sits next to her young child, who is one of three patients lying in cramped bunk beds in the recovery room of a Vietnamese hospital. There were usually six beds in the recovery war
A baby in a ward at Thmar Puok Hospital in Banteay Meanchey Province sleeps with an intravenous drip attached to a splint on his arm. Lack of resources in many regional Cambodian hospitals often means
Post-operative recovery room at the civilian hospital at Bien Hoa. The severe lack of medical facilities and staff in Vietnam led the South Vietnamese Government to request urgent civilian medical aid
View of the interior of an acute surgical ward at the 1st Australian General Hospital. The ward was a wooden hut of engineer construction in 1914 when the premises were those of a Stationary Hospital
South Vietnam, c. 1969. Under basic conditions in a Vietnamese hospital, Vietnamese patients lie on thin mattresses on old metal-frame beds which are crammed close together in the hospital ward. A wom
