Pons F, Rigal S, Dupeyron C, de Saint-Julien J
Service de Chirurgie thoracique, HIA du Val-de-Grâce, bd de Port-Royal, Paris.
Chirurgie. 1996;121(1):19-27.
The military health service provided a surgery antenna during the two months of the Turquoise operation in Zaire and Rwanda. During this period, the antenna functioned as a back-up station for the French troop and the local populations subjected to various conditions: Rwanda refugees who had escaped the massacres, subjects wounded by canon shots, war wounds, surgery emergencies in the refugee population. There were 315 operations performed including 33% in children and 70% for lesions of the limbs. The activity during the mission was analyzed on the basis of strategy for surgical diagnosis and treatment under local conditions (lack of complementary examinations, limited number of personnel, disrupted families in the refugee population, no possibility for transfer, major cholera and dysentery epidemic...).
在扎伊尔和卢旺达开展“绿松石行动”的两个月期间，军事医疗服务部门提供了一个外科手术网点。在此期间，该网点作为法国部队以及身处各种状况下当地民众的后备站点，这些民众包括逃过屠杀的卢旺达难民、遭炮弹击伤者、战争创伤者、难民群体中的外科急症患者。共实施了315台手术，其中33%的手术对象为儿童，70%的手术针对四肢损伤。根据当地条件下的外科诊断和治疗策略（缺乏辅助检查、人员数量有限、难民群体家庭离散、无法转诊、霍乱和痢疾大规模流行……）对任务期间的活动进行了分析。
