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Machetes and bullets near the border in Gisenyi, United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR), 26 July 1994, courtesy of United Nations Photo Library<\/p>\n

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Rwandan children at Ndosha camp in Goma, \u00a025 July 1994 courtesy\u00a0United Nations Photo Library<\/p>\n

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SUSAN WINTER <\/strong>CSC, MB, BS, FANZCA, FCICM, GCHE
\nRWANDA<\/p>\n

Rwanda consisted of approximately 85% Hutu and 14% Tutsi. For decades the minority Tutsi had maintained power, boosted by successive missionary groups and colonial authorities.<\/p>\n

On 6 April 1994, a plane carrying the Hutu president of Rwanda was shot down. Many blamed the Tutsi. Within weeks, 800,000 people, around three quarters of the Tutsi population, had been killed. Hutu who opposed the campaign were also killed.<\/p>\n

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Rwanda was Susan Winter\u2019s first deployment.\u00a0 The Australian contingent consisted of the \u201chospital\u201d, and the protection and headquarter elements.\u00a0 The \u201chospital\u201d was in the former private wing of the Central Hospital Kigali, which was linked to the main Kigali hospital.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cI have done a multitude of deployments since (Bougainville, East Timor, the Solomon Islands, Bali and Afghanistan).\u00a0 Would I do it again? Absolutely [although] … I have been asked often whether there is \u201csomething wrong\u201d with me that I wanted to go to all of these places.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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EVAN EVEREST\u00a0<\/strong>AM, MBCHB , FRACP, FICM
\nRWANDA<\/p>\n

Evan Everest was part of the 25 person Field Surgical Team (FST), that included a general and orthopaedic surgeon, anaesthetist, intensivist and general duties doctor. It was recognised during the first rotation that the ICU needed to be staffed by ICU nurses rather than using a mixture of nurses and medics.\u00a0 For the second rotation reserve ICU nurses were used.<\/p>\n

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The team had 24 beds, including two resuscitation bays and ICU beds, Central Sterilising Services Department \u00a0(CSSD) including laundry, and a radiographer with portable x-ray and blood.\u00a0The resuscitation bays were standardised across all Army health units in line with standard Early Management of Severe Trauma (EMST) principles.<\/p>\n

Equipment needed for the mission had been identified but not purchased before the team left. Urgent equipment purchases were made before deployment. The ventilators arrived about a month late. Luckily, a portable ventilator was found in the ruins of the Kigali hospital and used until the \u201cavians\u201d arrived.<\/p>\n

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Children, Busoro, Rwanda. 1994-09-10. Fox, Geoffrey (Photographer), Australian War Memorial<\/p>\n

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