FEWER FATAL WOUNDS
BATTLEFIELD HOSPITALS (Official Wireless) (Received Jan. 15, 1 p.m.) RUGBY, Jan. 14 An anaiysis of nearly 30,000 battle casualties admitted to Middle East hospitals from April. 1942, to March. 1943, shows that the mortality rate was only 2.1 per cent, comuared with 7.4 per cent in hospitals in Egypt and Palestine in the last war. Army medical authorities claim that ihis is mainly because the patients arrive in the hospitals in better condition. This results from the introduction of field surgical units and 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 specially to meet the requirements of mobile warfare. Staffed oy a surgeon, an. anaesthetist and five other rank?, they arc completely self-contained and capable of handling every class of emergency operation. Although fully mobile they can be brought into action and ready to begin operations on casualties less than two hours after arrival on a new site.
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Waikato Times, Volume 194, Issue 22246, 15 January 1944, Page 5
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