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Although I haven't deployed as a medic, I'd like to think that how we practice is how we play... at least to some extent.
Throughout years of courses and exercises with the medical services, there's always a focus on being ready to receive patients as soon as possible. The concept of tailgate ready doesn't seem to being applied to the DART deployment in Pakistan. Of course there are issues of security, etc. but I can't understand how it's taken nearly a week to deploy a functional unit. I believe the Field Hospital is supposed to be able to go up in around 24 hrs, and is a much bigger unit.
You can put up a small section sized UMS and start treating patients with a couple doctors and a handful of medics in about 15 min if your working hard.
Can some HS folks with some more deployment experience fill me in on what I'm missing?... my gut reaction is that delaying pt care to set up accomodation tents and HQ facilities is a gross fault in priorities.
Cheers.
Although I haven't deployed as a medic, I'd like to think that how we practice is how we play... at least to some extent.
Throughout years of courses and exercises with the medical services, there's always a focus on being ready to receive patients as soon as possible. The concept of tailgate ready doesn't seem to being applied to the DART deployment in Pakistan. Of course there are issues of security, etc. but I can't understand how it's taken nearly a week to deploy a functional unit. I believe the Field Hospital is supposed to be able to go up in around 24 hrs, and is a much bigger unit.
You can put up a small section sized UMS and start treating patients with a couple doctors and a handful of medics in about 15 min if your working hard.
Can some HS folks with some more deployment experience fill me in on what I'm missing?... my gut reaction is that delaying pt care to set up accomodation tents and HQ facilities is a gross fault in priorities.
Cheers.