Civil-military cooperation on operational deployment: the Bentiu State Hospital medical training programme
Autor: | E Sellon, Jason E Smith, Jeyasankar Jeyanathan |
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Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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United Nations business.industry Service delivery framework UN General Medicine Public relations Relief Work Training (civil) Hospitals State rresource-limited environment Resource (project management) Military Personnel Software deployment Health care Mandate Humans business Resilience (network) Contingency Delivery of Health Care medical education & training (see Medical Education & Training) medical education & training |
Zdroj: | BMJ Military Health |
ISSN: | 2633-3775 |
Popis: | The United Nations Mission in South Sudan has a mandate to protect civilians and support the delivery of humanitarian assistance. Recognising this during Operation TRENTON, UK staff of the UN level 2 hospital were able to support the people of Bentiu through initiatives to develop local health services with on-the-ground civil–military cooperation. The Bentiu State Hospital Medical Training Programme was developed to train and mentor staff associated with healthcare in Bentiu, to help improve service delivery, support local health services with on-the-ground non-governmental organisation/military coordination and to create a platform to facilitate the sharing of information to support local health services with the overall humanitarian response. It was recognised how important it was to deliver a programme that carefully understood the unique challenging limitations, circumstances and environment. Hence careful tailoring of the programme was essential to ensure that the training was valuable, implementable and durable, long beyond the operational deployment of TRENTON. Despite the logistical and practical complexities, the programme was very positively received, and the training team believed that the development and progress made would build a small part of the future infrastructure of healthcare delivery in the region. Future contingency operations are likely to take place in the resource- limited austere environment. As reflected in this deployed initiative, local health training activity providing key knowledge to build resilience for the current and immediate future is a precious and important defence engagement utility. |
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