Army team tested on ability to set up field hospital in 24 hours
The military unit could be asked to serve in scenarios such as a natural disaster.
An Army team has been tested on their ability to set up a fully operational field hospital in 24 hours.
The Army Medical Service’s 22 Field Hospital were tasked during an exercise held near Andover, Hampshire, with setting up the facility in a trial run to ensure they could deploy anywhere in the world within five days.
The military unit, based at Mytchett, Hampshire, could be asked to serve in a number of scenarios such as providing humanitarian relief after a natural disaster.
“22 Field Hospital will be required to deploy what is known as a 2/1/2/12 hospital; that is two emergency bays, one operating theatre, 2 ICUs (intensive care units) and a 12-bed ward.
“That is just the clinical aspects, on top of that there is power and water production, a Field Hygiene unit along with accommodation, washing/WCs and dining facilities for upwards of 300 personnel, in all that is around a 50-tent support village.”
“They can expect to face multiple casualties, which for exercise purposes will be played by actors carrying dramatically realistic simulated wounds of varying severity.”
