BATTLE CASUALTIES
VERY HIGH PROPORTION OF RECOVERIES
IN MIDDLE EAST HOSPITALS.
SPLENDID WORK OF FIELD SURGICAL UNITS.
(British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) RUGBY, January 14
An analysis of nearly 30.000 battle casualties admitted to Middle East hospitals from April, 1942, to March, 1943, shows 1 a mortality rate of only 2.1 per cent, compared
with 7.4 per cent in hospitals in Egypt and Palestine in the last war.
The Army medical authorities; claim that this is mainly because patients arrive at the hospitals in better condition. This results from the introduction of field surgical units—highly mobile operating theatres, working close to the front line, well ahead of the casualty clearing stations. These field surgical units were developed in the Middle East especially to meet the requirements, of mobile warfare. Staffed by a surgeon, anaesthetist and five other ranks, they are completely self-contained and capable of handling every class of emergency operation. Although fully mobile, they can be brought into action ready to begin operations on casualties in less than two hours after arrival at a new site.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 January 1944, Page 2
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