HCM City (VNA) – 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.
The field hospital is expected to officially become operational in April 2018.
At a working session with Deputy Defence Minister Nguyen Chi Vinh in Ho Chi Minh City on February 22, Major Bui Duc Thanh, Director of Field Hospital No. 1, said his infirmary was set up in July 2015 with 69 staff members.
Since then, training in specialised knowledge, military understanding, and foreign language skills has been provided and will be enhanced in the time ahead.
The staff has also practiced at different departments of Military Hospital 175 to improve their capacity, he added.
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