As soon as the injured began to emerge from the helicopter, Joe Turner and his team went into action, providing first aid, assessing injuries, and dressing wounds. The American medics flew for 40 hours to Sumatra from the US to help the survivors of the earthquake that devastated the Indonesian island of Nias on Monday night. But for Mr Turner and his colleagues, the frustration was that they expected to be doing this work on Nias.

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