HOSPITAL PLANES
USE IN COMBAT AREAS (Rec. 7 p.m.) NEW YORK Oct. 22. More than 250,000 wounded' and sick have been flown from American combat areas to hospitals in the last 20 months, said Lieutenant-colonel Richard Meiling, in an address to 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. The secret of such success was the specially-trained air crews comprising doctors, nurses, and enlisted men. The planes relieved the congestion on 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 cf the association. It is claimed that the dressing can easily be applied by persons with limited training.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25365, 25 October 1943, Page 4
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