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First combat medical care course in Somalia

(B2) The first TCCC course (Tactical Combat Casualty Care) for specialist medical personnel ended on May 22 at the General Dhagabadan Training Center (GDTC) in Mogadishu.

(credit: EUTM Somalia)

This fourteen-day training brought together ten Somali National Army soldiers, including one woman, from the 62nd medical battalion Xooga.

The main objective of this course, combining theoretical and practical sessions, prepared by EUTM Somalia's medical adviser, was to train military doctors able to intervene in first aid during operations or critical situations.

The diplomas were handed over in the presence of Colonel Mohamed Hassan Buney, training manager of the training center, Somali side, and Colonel Ricci, head of the EUTM Somalia consulting team, European side.

(NGV)

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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