Archive for the ‘Medical Military’ Category
Spanish Military Doctors Providing Health Care for Afghan
Military medical Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Spanish Qala-e-Naw (Afghanistan) conducted in collaboration with local authorities, a project for medical examination of children in a slum in the city.
Framed in the context of quick-impact projects carried out by civilian-military team (CIMIC) of the PRT, the doctors of the Spanish contingent in the morning set up a medical post yesterday recognition for children in the neighborhood would give Shamail Pashtun , north of Qala-e-Naw.
In collaboration with the mullah of the area, the CIMIC team had prepared in advance a list of all children who live with priority health problems. Each child, accompanied by a local representative, was passing by the post commander doctor to doctor Susana Gomez-Gimeno and Captain nurse Alfonso Thomas had moved into the building, still unfinished, the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation Development (AECI) is building to house a training center for teachers. Read the rest of this entry »
The U.S. Military Doctors Were Complicit in Torture in Iraq
U.S. military doctors were complicit in the torture suffered by Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison and systematically ignored professional ethics, as reported yesterday by the British journal The Lancet.
The publication includes an article prepared by Dr. Steven Miles American, which claims that this attitude has been the norm of military medical service in Afghanistan, Iraq and the prison of Guantanamo Bay.
“Government documents show that military medical system failed to protect the U.S. human rights of detainees, sometimes collaborated with interrogations and practiced with the guards who committed abuses, and no reported injuries or deaths caused by beatings” he says. Miles, a professor at the University of Minnesota, believes that there was a “widespread failure” in meeting the duty to respect the Geneva Convention on prisoners of war and that this had “an adverse effect” on the situation of prisoners. Read the rest of this entry »
More Than 100 Military Doctors Asking Clemency for Condemned The Yak-42
Dozens of military doctors, more than 100, although Defence refuses to provide a figure-have been directed in recent weeks a letter to the secretary of the department, Maria Victoria San José, which call for clemency for the three officers of Health that were convicted of the false identification of 30 of the 62 victims of the crash of Yak-42. The signatories claim that “careers [the three men] have performed with strict adherence to hierarchy, command and military discipline.”
General Vicente Navarro was sentenced to three years and commanders Jose Ramon Ramirez and Miguel Angel Saiz, 18 months, although all have been asked to suspend his imprisonment. The last two lost their military career.
Military Physicians And Abortion
Around the new Abortion Act, sorry for Sexual and Reproductive Health, there are a lot of questions that are unanswered. For example, I read in Alba military doctors, through the independent group known as THE MILITARY FOR DEMOCRACY, established in 1994, claiming their right to conscientious objection. As fiercely military would obey their superior officers in this case as in others, yet they say they can not go against their moral convictions are declared “war” against abortion with these strong words:
“The staff of the Military Medical Corps is protected against impositions, such as performing abortions or dispense biocidal preparations and devices for destruction of human beings conceived in the womb.” Read the rest of this entry »
Military Medical in Haiti
City councilor Magdalena Rincon Puerto Lápice Goicoechea continues the story of his experience with the military on a humanitarian mission in Haiti, and the journey that takes him to live and watch live after the earthquake in Haiti and the Dominican Rapública .
Vomited. There’s nothing more than liquid in the stomach. Captain nurse takes the black plastic bag from which it derives the belongings of the mother and the child and gives it to throw up inside. With tissues and wipes her face clean. It seems that already has passed the dizziness. We drive through the streets of Santo Domingo. Altzie called Pelsival (or similar). Has eight years. Her mother, Gerda (or similar, because the spelling of their names is not always the same). Read the rest of this entry »
Spanish Military Physicians in Afganhistan Have served More Than 300 Patients in The Last Month
Spanish doctors Role of the Military Hospital 2 of the Forward Support Base (FSB) in Herat (Afghanistan) have treated over 300 patients, most Afghans, since it was inaugurated on the 29th hospital January by Defense Minister Jose Antonio Alonso, on his last visit to Afghanistan.
Since opening, the Role 2 has been intense and varied activity, confirmed by the many visits he has been subjected. The hospital has modern facilities, transport, among which an intensive care unit, two operating rooms, hospital services and primary care, clinical analysis, radiology, dentistry, psychology, veterinary medicine and pharmacy. It also has air medical evacuation capacity and conservation of blood.
Role The primary function of 2 as medical support to ISAF forces, has increased assistance to military personnel and Afghan police and the provision of humanitarian assistance through local personal medical consultation. The figures speak for themselves: they have attended a total of 306 patients, of whom 286 have been Afghans. With a medical team comprising 20 men and 11 women, Role surgical module 2 is in turn composed of 10 doctors Bulgarian Army, with its remarkable experience in this type of mission, has made a total of eight operations. Read the rest of this entry »
U.S. Military Doctors in Iraq Collaborated with Torture
U.S. military doctors in Iraq collaborated with interrogators in the abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, reports a study.
In a scathing condemnation of the behavior of doctors, nurses and para-military, the American expert on ethical conduct, Steven Miles, called for reforming the rules of military medicine and to investigate the role of doctors in torture.
The article was published in the Lancet medical journal. The U.S. military was studying the article on Thursday, but gave no immediate response.
Photographs of prisoners subjected to abuse and humiliation at the hands of U.S. troops have caused great scandal to national and international level. Although the conduct of the troops has been under intense scrutiny, the role played by medical personnel during the torture he has received relatively scant attention. Read the rest of this entry »
The Step Advanced Medical Army in Peacekeeping Missions
Our old friend, for visiting Melilla on several occasions, Professor of Contemporary History at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid, José Luis Rodríguez Jiménez. Lighting has a new book, to some extent to submit continuation of a few years ago, to me the Legion! published by Planeta in 2005. A magnificent work through five hundred pages takes us into the fascinating history of the Legion since its founding in 1920 until today, because not in vain subtitled “The Astral Millán peace missions.”
The new work just off the press has also involved the collaboration of Luis Palacios Bañuelos and Mary F. Sanchez Hernandez, who listed as coauthors. And it has a long title, similar to that of many nineteenth century works. Exact title by others to illustrate its contents: “Advanced Medical Tier Army in peacekeeping missions and humanitarian assistance conducted by the Armed Forces.” Published with the assistance of the Directorate General for Institutional Relations of the Ministry of Defence, as part of a broader research project. Read the rest of this entry »