FLYING WOUHDED TO BASE
250,000 GARRIED IN 20 MONTHS
HEW CONTROL METHOD FOR H/EMORRHAGE
NEW YORK, Oct. 22 ; More than a quarter of a million wounded and sick have been flown from American couibat areas to hospitals in the last 20 months. Lieutenant-colonel (Richard Meiling told the Military Surgeons' Association. He added that special hospital planes were unnecessary as paratroop and transport planes were carrying the patients as return freight. Twenty-five thousand wounded in Africa and Sicily were flown to hospital without accident, and with only one death en route. Tho secret of such success was the specially-trained air crews comprising doctors, nurses, and enlisted men. The planes relieved the congestion of military roads, and conserved hospitals, trains, and hospital ships. The new type of. dressing for quick and safe control of external haemorrhages from wounds in any part of the body, which eliminated the need for a tourniquet, was demonstrated at the meeting of the association. It is claimed that tne dressing can easily be applied by persons with limited training.
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Evening Star, Issue 25004, 25 October 1943, Page 3
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