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Ken Rose gets blasted clean with a fire hose.

Safety boss specialists use pry bars to remove bolts.

Fire-fighters shield themselves from the 4,000 degree heat generated from the burning wells. They are sprayed constantly to keep them cool.

Mac McIntire secures his helmut with duct tape.

Four companies, Houston's Boots and Coots, Wild Well Control, Red Adair Company and the Calgary's Safety Boss, have been hired to cap the more than 600 'wild' wells the Iraqi's blew up. The Kuwaitis say they are losing six million barrels of crude a…

In the dark and the wet of the sleeping sickness ward, the intrusive spinal taps have been done to determine the stage of a mother and child's sleeping sickness infection. Soon the injections of arsenic will begin. But instead of cringing in fear…

The highly poisonous metallic element Arsenic is used in the treatmetn of sleeping sickness. These injections are greatly feared. Like chemotherapy, the treatments cause discomfort and sometimes death.

Moyo Hospital has an unusable kitchen so families bring food. This mother of a two year old is suffering from meningitis and sleeping sickness. Her husband stays with her for ten hours a day, watching over her and the child.

Besides laboring against sleeping sickness, MSF doctors assist hospital in Moyo by doing rounds and diagnosing the countless illnesses befalling these disadvantaged people. The boy shown has a curable lung disease.

Having been given a local anesthetic, this young man is about to undergo an appendectomy. Medical students will perform much of the major surgery. The patient survived the procedure.