Argentine Air Force Mobile Field Hospital
The Argentine Air Force Mobile Field Hospital (Spanish: Hospital Reubicable de la Fuerza Aérea ) is a field hospital operated by the Argentine Air Force. It is one of three health centers of its kind worldwide.[1]
Description
The unit has a 64-member staff personnel between militaries and civilians and is made up to 14 containers Pictorial which when they are all assembled together they occupy 360 m2. Fourteen flights of C-130 Hercules aircraft are needed to fully deploy the Hospital.[2]
Among the services provided by the Hospital are surgeries, odontology, pharmacy, etc. The Hospital has its own laboratory, water purification plant and power generation engine.[3]
Thanks to its isolation, the construction can withstand temperatures from -15 to 40 Celsius and can endure harsh tremors as demonstrated to remain operational after the earthquake of January 2010 in Haiti.[4]
Deployments
- 1981 : San Luis Province
- 1982 : Comodoro Rivadavia during the Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas )
- 1983 : Chaco and Formosa provinces.
- 1984-1986 : Buenos Aires province
- 1993-1995 : Mozambique under United Nations mandate
- 2000-2003 : Kosovo Force (KFOR) under NATO mandate [5][6][7]
- 2004 : Deployment to Afghanistan aborted due Hurricane Jeanne: Deployed to Haiti instead.
- 2004–Present : MINUSTAH medical facility in Haiti ( Google Maps, picture)
- 2010 feb/sep : Curicó after the Chile earthquake [8] video Chile
2010 Haiti earthquake
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On January 12, 2010 while deployed at Port-au-Prince serving as medical facility for MINUSTAH troops the hospital was the only one still opened following the earthquake treating nearly 1,000 people on the first night[9][10]
Both U.S. presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton congratulated Argentina for the Hospital quick response in the first critical hours after the earthquake [11] The same did Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her visit to Buenos Aires on 1 March 2010 [12]
References
- La Fuerza Aérea dará apoyo sanitario en Puerto Príncipe
- El hospital argentino en Haití, un reflejo de los dramas cotidianos
- Un hospital es blanco del conflicto étnico
- ↑ El hospital argentino es el único centro de atención para las miles de víctimas del terremoto
- ↑ Official site
- ↑ Official site
- ↑ El hospital argentino es el único centro de atención para las miles de víctimas del terremoto
- ↑ official FAA report
- ↑ Militares argentinos intervienen en Kosovo
- ↑ Los argentinos que trabajan por la paz en Kosovo
- ↑ mindef:PARTIÓ HACIA CHILE AVIÓN HÉRCULES CON AYUDA HUMANITARIA
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- ↑ Obama y Clinton elogiaron la labor humanitaria de Argentina
- ↑ I thanked the president for the excellent work that is done by the Argentine doctors and peacekeepers in Haiti.
External links
- (Spanish) Official site
- (Portuguese) Hospital Reubicable at defesanet.com.br
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