Sick and injured children in the children's ward of a hospital, which was attended to by members ...

Sick and injured children in the children's ward of a hospital, which was attended to by members of an Australian civilian surgical team, during a ward round. The overcrowding is obvious as indicated by the closeness of the beds and multiple people per bed (in the background). Visiting families often gathered around the doctors and nurses to watch as they tended to the patients, leaving them little privacy. More than 450 civilian medical and surgical staff volunteered to work in hospitals in Vietnam to instruct and teach Vietnamese medical and paramedical personnel and provide medical aid to anyone who required it.