HONOLULU -- A six person surgical team from Tripler Army Medical Center, also known as TAMC, led by Col. Alan Gehrich, Chief of the TAMC Obstetrics and Gynecology (OB-GYN) Department and Col. Charles Dietrich, program director of the TAMC OB-GYN residency program performed 36 obstetric fistula repair/prolapse surgeries and delivered 13 lectures at the Kumudini Hospital in Tangail, the Ad-din Hospital in Khulna and the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Nov. 19 to Dec. 1, 2016. The team performed 13 of the surgeries in just one day at Kumudini Hospital. This mission was the first Department of Defense executed health care exchange mission performed in the Pacific command area of responsibility that was funded by USAID in support of their Obstetric Fistula Prevention program. A second mission is scheduled for April 13-27, 2017.
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