Medical Cover Sandy Side
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 |
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." |
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. |
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