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Field hospital ready for peacekeeping mission in South Sudan

All equipment and personnel of the first field hospital of Vietnam is scheduled to leave for South Sudan in December 2017 to join the United Nations peacekeeping mission there.
Field hospital ready for peacekeeping mission in South Sudan ảnh 1Deputy Defence Minister Nguyen Chi Vinh speaks at the working session with Field Hospital No. 1 on Feb. 22 (Photo: VNA)

HCM City (VNA)– All equipment and personnel of the first field hospital of Vietnam isscheduled to leave for South Sudan in December 2017 to join the United Nations peacekeepingmission there.

The field hospital is expected to officiallybecome operational in April 2018.

At a working session with Deputy DefenceMinister Nguyen Chi Vinh in Ho Chi Minh City on February 22, Major Bui DucThanh, Director of Field Hospital No. 1, said his infirmary was set up in July2015 with 69 staff members. 

Since then, training in specialised knowledge,military understanding, and foreign language skills has been provided and willbe enhanced in the time ahead.

The staff has also practiced at differentdepartments of Military Hospital 175 to improve their capacity, he added.

Sen. Lt. Gen. Vinh asked for personnel trainingand equipment preparation to be accelerated to send the field hospital to SouthSudan on schedule. He also requested the hospital be immediately ready foremergencies in Vietnam. 

Its staff members should also visit fieldhospitals of experienced countries like Japan and the UK to get acquainted withthe real situation and learn from their expertise, he noted.

Keeping peace is also a combat mission, anddifficulties and sacrifice are inevitable. The effectiveness and quality ofthis force’s activities must be ensured as it is the honour and the prestige ofVietnam, including its army, at the UN, Vinh stressed.

Vietnam officially joined UN peacekeepingoperations in 2014. In two years, 12 officers were deployed for the UN missionsin South Sudan and the Central African Republic.-VNA

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