Photo by Sgt. Anthony Hopper | U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa | 04.16.2024
U.S. Army Cpt. Kenneth Stroer, an emergency room physician (62A), assigned to the 240th Forward Resuscitative Surgical Detachment, 44th Medical Brigade, poses for a photo outside the Kamenge Military Hospital in Bujumbura Burundi on April 16, 2024, during the Medical Readiness Exercise (MEDREX). MEDREX is a medical readiness exercise program, planned and executed by U.S. Southern European Task......
Photo by Sgt. Anthony Hopper | U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa | 04.15.2024
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Erin Bothwell (right), a preventative medicine specialist (68S), assigned to the 172nd Medical Detachment, 44th Medical Brigade, learns about the different types of malaria prevalent in Burundi, how they are tested, and the proper way to diagnose the various strains from a Burundian lab technician during the Medical Readiness Exercise (MEDREX) at the Kamenge Military......
Photo by Sgt. Anthony Hopper | U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa | 04.14.2024
U.S. Army Lt. Col. Luiz Correa, an obstetrician and gynecologist (OB/GYN) physician (60J) with the 44th Medical Brigade, works alongside Burundian nursing students at the Kamenge Military Hospital, to successfully complete a cesarean section procedure enhancing the hospital’s capabilities, and solidifying proper procedure of this type of birth, during the Medical Readiness Exercise (MEDREX)......
Photo by Sgt. Anthony Hopper | U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa | 04.14.2024
U.S. Army Lt. Col. Luiz Correa, an obstetrics and gynecologist (OB/GYN) physician (60J) with the 44th Medical Brigade, completes a cesarean section (C-Section) procedure which resulted in a successful delivery during the Medical Readiness Exercise (MEDREX) in Bujumbura, Burundi, April 15, 2024. MEDREX is a medical readiness exercise program, planned and executed by U.S. Southern European Task......
Photo by Sgt. Anthony Hopper | U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa | 04.14.2024
U.S. Army Sgt. Brian Lloyd, a combat medic (68W), assigned to the 240th Forward Resuscitative Surgical Detachment, 44th Medical Brigade, assists a Burundi National Defence Force nurse with an intravenous tube during the Medical Readiness Exercise (MEDREX) April 15, 2024, to stabilize a patient involved in a bus accident in Bujumbura, Burundi. MEDREX is a medical readiness exercise program,......
Photo by Sgt. Anthony Hopper | U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa | 04.14.2024
U.S. Army Lt. Col. Mashandra Elam-Canty, a perinatal clinical nurse specialist (66G7T), assigned to Womack Army Medical Center (WAMC), attends to a newborn after a successful cesarean delivery during the Medical Readiness Exercise (MEDREX) in Bujumbura Burundi, April 15, 2024. MEDREX is a medical readiness exercise program, planned and executed by U.S. Southern European Task Force, Africa......
Photo by Sgt. Anthony Hopper | U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa | 04.14.2024
U.S. Army Lt. Col. Luiz Correa, an obstetrics and gynecologist (OB/GYN) physician (60J) with the 44th Medical Brigade, places the final stitches on a patient after he and a Burundian nursing student completed a cesarean section (C-Section) delivery during the Medical Readiness Exercise (MEDREX) in Bujumbura Burundi, April 15, 2024. MEDREX is a medical readiness exercise program, planned and......
Photo by Sgt. Anthony Hopper | U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa | 04.11.2024
U.S. Army Maj. Kimberly Goytia and Cpt. Ashley Sarlo, critical care nurses (66S), assigned to the 240th Forward Resuscitative Surgical Detachment, 44th Medical Brigade, assist their counterparts from the Burundi National Defence Force, by analyzing a patient's symptoms in order to better understand his illness during the Medical Readiness Exercise (MEDREX) in Bujumbura, Burundi, April 11,......
