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A French medical-surgical unit deployed on the border with Jordan

(B2) France will deploy an air-transportable surgical unit near the Syrian-Jordanian border in the coming days to help victims of the fighting in Syria who have crossed the border - in particular people injured by gunshots - as well as refugees. Syrians in Jordan. " An interministerial mission of precursors, made up of representatives of the Ministries of the Interior, Defense and Foreign Affairs”, left this morning August 7 - announces the Quai d'Orsay, " in order to carry out a needs assessment which will make it possible to refine the modalities of this emergency medical aid ". Contacts have been made with the Jordanian authorities, representatives of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and humanitarian NGOs intervening locally for this purpose.

(updated August 8) The total workforce deployed on the French side for this field hospital could be 60 to 80 people. The medico-surgical group of the armed forces health service will have “ more than twenty health professionals from the armed forces, including experts in traumatology in order to provide combat victims with a high level of quality care “, we confirm on the side of the Defense. “About thirty French soldiers will intervene alongside them to support the system”. This military medical aid may be supplemented and relayed by civilian resources from the Ministry of the Interior (civil security, etc.), in particular for specialties enabling women and children to be taken care of. A necessary medical intervention according to Jean-Yves Le Drian, Minister of Defense. " It is the responsibility of our country to provide concrete and urgent assistance to the victims of the fighting and to the Syrian refugees, as close as possible to the conflict zones. »

Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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