Monday 18 June 2007

Army surgeon tells of delay in flying wounded to hospital

A senior army surgeon has said that British troops injured in fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan faced delays of up to seven hours before reaching a field hospital, more than the time it took US soldiers in Vietnam to be evacuated 40 years ago. He made his comments in an article for the Royal Army Medical Corps Journal after a tour of duty.



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