A ceremony was held at HCM City’s Tan Son NhatInternational Airport to see off the staff before they boarded the RoyalAustralian Air Force’s Boeing C-17 Globemaster III to fly to the war-ravagedSouth Sudan.
The first batch departed for the African country from HCMCity, also on the Boeing C-17 aircraft provided by Australia, last month. Theycompleted mandatory quarantine and are in the UN base in Bentiu since April 17to replace the Level-2 Field Hospital No. 2.
The level-2 field hospital No. 3 was established in March2020 with 70 officers and soldiers, including 64 official and six reservemembers, who were all vaccinated against COVID-19.
Before departure, they undertook several technicaltraining courses./.