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Operation Shaddock — the Australian Defence Force response to the tsunami disaster in Papua New Guinea
Author(s) -
Taylor Paul R P,
Schlimmer James E,
Emonson David L
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1998.tb123432.x
Subject(s) - new guinea , disaster response , unit (ring theory) , medical emergency , software deployment , medical unit , medicine , geography , forensic engineering , engineering , history , emergency management , political science , ethnology , psychology , law , mathematics education , software engineering
Operation Shaddock was the name given to the deployment of a major field medical unit of 58 Australian Defence Force medical and other personnel to Vanimo, in northwestern Papua New Guinea. Hundreds of victims of the tsunami disaster were treated and more than 200 surgical procedures performed in a 10‐day mission.