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The MOD is refuting claims made in a Sunday broadsheet that we are short of doctors in Afghanistan. If there is one factor that must be in place (for me at least) during a deployment it is that the best medical care available is present at the deployed location. Lets hope this is the Journos getting it wrong - comments?
http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/De...fghanistan.htm
http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/De...fghanistan.htm
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The Sunday Telegraph article
"After spending three weeks on the front line in Helmand with the Royal Anglian Regiment, however, it can be revealed:
• one military base under daily Taliban attack spent three weeks without a doctor
• the main military hospital in Helmand has run out of beds twice in six month
• no formal system exists in the Army to replace soldiers killed and injured in battle
• helicopter shortages have meant that one isolated base was down to its last 50 rounds of mortar ammunition
• the commanding officer of one unit was stranded at a base for five days by the lack of helicopters
• heavy machine guns in use by the Army are 55 years old
The shortage of doctors in Helmand was revealed following the death last month of Captain David Hicks, second-in-command of C (Essex) Company 1 Royal Anglians. He had repeatedly requested that a doctor capable of conducting emergency minor surgery be sent to Patrol Base Inkerman in the Sangin valley."
"After spending three weeks on the front line in Helmand with the Royal Anglian Regiment, however, it can be revealed:
• one military base under daily Taliban attack spent three weeks without a doctor
• the main military hospital in Helmand has run out of beds twice in six month
• no formal system exists in the Army to replace soldiers killed and injured in battle
• helicopter shortages have meant that one isolated base was down to its last 50 rounds of mortar ammunition
• the commanding officer of one unit was stranded at a base for five days by the lack of helicopters
• heavy machine guns in use by the Army are 55 years old
The shortage of doctors in Helmand was revealed following the death last month of Captain David Hicks, second-in-command of C (Essex) Company 1 Royal Anglians. He had repeatedly requested that a doctor capable of conducting emergency minor surgery be sent to Patrol Base Inkerman in the Sangin valley."
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
I know one light bn will be light one medic after his tour in Iraq is over.
Other times on exercises or in Kosovo where the bn has done 50-50 deployment the medics have been deployed for all of the time.
He has done his time and he knows where the NHS want him.
Other times on exercises or in Kosovo where the bn has done 50-50 deployment the medics have been deployed for all of the time.
He has done his time and he knows where the NHS want him.
