The US airforce surgeons have appreciated the conditions under which Ugandan medical officers have been operating.

The surgeons who are part of the Medflag 2002 joint military and medical exercise said the services offered by the medical officers could not have been any better under the unique situation they were operating.

"The experience we have gone through is very helpful and many of the cases we have seen are very challenging," Dr. Knych said in Soroti hospital.

Knych was among the Medflag medical personnel who carried out an appraisal tour of Soroti referral hospital as part of the nine-nation collaborative civil/military exercise-taking place in Soroti.

The team visited the hospital to see how they could handle cases that are rare in their temperate climate situations. The cases included malaria opthalmology (eye care) and schistomiasis, the deceased whose warms are spread by snails.

They were also interested in learning how the Uganda medical personnel have handled and coped up with the HIV/AIDS that is also prevalent in other countries including the US.

Soroti medical superintendent Dr. Bernard Odu said the Medflag team was appreciative with the organisation structure in the hospital.

"They never expected to visit a hospital and find it in the way ours was," Dr. Odu said told The New Vision after the team had left the hospital.