Hawaii Airmen to deliver health care to Fiji Published June 14, 2006 By Tech. Sgt. Chris Vadnais Air Force Print News HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE, Hawaii (AFPN) -- Pacific Air Forces and 15th Medical Group Airmen left here June 14 on a health care mission to Suva, Fiji, where they will train Fijian military leaders and participate in a humanitarian outreach program. “We’re going to be working with the Fiji Ministry of Health and Fiji School of Medicine to reach out to the people,” said Lt. Col. Mylene Huynh, mission commander and PACAF international health affairs preventive medicine physician.“We’ll go out to rural villages to deliver health care, so it’s a partnership,” she said. The team will spend about 20 days in Fiji. The first part of their stay will be devoted to training military members and discussing health care with civilian medical officials. The final four days will be dedicated to outreach activities. “From a military standpoint, it’s an opportunity to strengthen our partnerships with the Fijian army,” said retired Army Col. Dale Vincent, chief of education programs at the University of Hawaii’s School of Medicine. “They’ve been great supporters of the United States in the Middle East, and this is an opportunity for us to go down and support them as they support the U.S.,” he said. The military team from Hickam includes internal medicine, public health and dental experts. “I think we’ll learn a lot about their culture,” Colonel Huynh said. “We’ll learn about different ways to practice medicine in a rural setting or in a remote setting where we don’t have our usual diagnostic tools.”