Sydney Anglican Col Peet is helping to care for survivors of Tuesday’s Goma plane crash at HEAL Africa's hospital, featured in the Lumo documentary seen around Sydney in February.

Mr Peet, a member of All Souls Leichhardt, is in Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, through CNEC Partners International to oversee the building of new wards for the hospital.

However in recent days he has been helping to transport victims from the crash site to the hospital and allocate patients to doctors.

The hospital's program manager, Lyn Lusi, who toured Australia in January and February to raise awareness of the issue of rape as a weapon of war, has said that nobody connected with the hospital has been injured or killed.

"All the people we know are accounted for which is a reason for thanksgiving," she reports.

The crash occurred less than a mile from the hospital, when an aircraft failed to take off and instead ploughed into the heavily populated Birere marketplace at the end of the runway.

"We are directly under the flight path and only 500 metres from where the plane crashed. Only God’s grace saved the plane from landing on the hospital," Mr Peet writes.

HEAL’s program manager, Lyn Lusi said up to 15,000 people were trying to extinguish the fire with buckets of water

More than 70 people have been reported killed in the crash.

HEAL Africa is currently caring for 100 of the injured survivors, who were taken directly to the hospital from the scene of the accident.

Victims face long-term struggle

A team of American doctors had arrived on the day of the crash as volunteers to train Congolese doctors at the hospital, which specialises in orthopedic and fistula surgery.

"One of the visiting US Doctors noted that the reaction, in the time of crisis, here was a good as anywhere in the world, although in the western world patients would have been initially treated indoors, where here that was not possible," Mr Peet reports.

However he says the struggle for injured victims may only be just beginning.

"One major concern is that as the plane landed on the market many of the patients have no money for follow up treatment or surgery. There is an immediate need for funds to support these people."

CNN reports there have been 10 plane crashes in the Congo " which is heavily reliant on air travel due to its poor infrastructure - since February last year, resulting in 76 fatalities.

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