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| Armed forces to get helicopter ambulances: official | | | Mathura, Aug 29: The armed forces will soon induct helicopter ambulances to provide speedy medical assistance to wounded military personnel, a senior defence official said today.
"I will check the system at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited in Bangalore shortly and then orders will be placed as per requirement. It will be a revolution as medical assistance will be provided to the wounded without wasting time," said Vice Admiral V K Singh, director general of the Armed Forces Medical Services.
The wounded personnel could be brought by mobile hospitals, well-equipped ambulances with ICU-like facilities, to the helicopter ambulances. "This will help to provide immediate medical assistance to wounded soldiers," Singh told reporters here.
Super specialists had been posted in frontline hospitals as part of efforts to provide the best healthcare to military personnel. "Now a soldier can be operated on in hospitals at Siachen or Leh," he said.
Singh said the army is seeking permission from the government for making HIV tests obligatory for every new recruits. "We have 96 HIV detection centers in big army hospitals. Hiding HIV is a crime. We start treatment of HIV as soon as we are told (about it)," he said.
Asked what his department was doing to counter tension among soldiers, Singh said the jawans were free from tension while with their units. The district administration in their home states earlier sent lower level officers to the residences of soldiers if they reported some problem, but this "practice had now almost been given up", he alleged. |
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