After discovering that a pregnant Afghan woman who entered the Jeremy Chandler Center for Medicine, Nov. 12, 2009, complaining of abdominal pain has gall stones, medical team members from the Forward Surgical Team (FST) and the Special Operations Forces (SOF) use an interpreter to explain that it would be safer for her baby if she waits until after she gives birth to have the stones surgically removed, Farah, Afghanistan. The medics offered her some antibiotics and vitamins to help her stay healthy throughout the pregnancy and offered for her to come back to the clinic, which is located just o
After discovering that a pregnant Afghan woman who entered the Jeremy Chandler Center for Medicine, Nov. 12, 2009, complaining of abdominal pain has gall stones, medical team members from the Forward Surgical Team (FST) and the Special Operations Forces (SOF) use an interpreter to explain that it would be safer for her baby if she waits until after she gives birth to have the stones surgically removed, Farah, Afghanistan. The medics offered her some antibiotics and vitamins to help her stay healthy throughout the pregnancy and offered for her to come back to the clinic, which is located just outside Forward Operating Base (FOB) Farah. Members of the FST, the Farah Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) medical team, 82nd Airborne medics and SOF medics, provide medical care to locals at the SOF Clinic twice a week.
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