Modern Intensive Care Unit: A sterile, cutting-edge intensive care unit (ICU) interior with advanced medical equipment, representing the pinnacle of medical care. Featuring an unoccupied bed.

Anesthesiologist hand in protective gloves preparing equipment in intensive care unit, ICU, Covid-19 pandemic, Artificial lung ventilation before operation. pulmoflator during surgery. Saving life

In the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Monash Medical Centre, Associate Nurse Unit Manager Fissaha Gobena is skillfully delivering complex care to critically ill people. ‘Fish’ as he is known to colleagues, is a long way from where he started his nursing career in Ethiopia. ‘[In my homeland] there was very little medical equipment or supplies. So, we had to do what we could to save lives,’ Fish told SBS. ‘There were a lot of infectious diseases, like malaria, typhoid and other fevers... but the mai