Deputy Defence Minister Sen. Lt. Gen. Nguyen Chi Vinh (standing) chairs the meeting. (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam is ramping upefforts to get its second level-2 field hospital ready for the United Nations’peacekeeping activities in the near future.
The Ministry of National Defence held a meetingin Hanoi on March 11 to review preparations for and difficulties facing thesecond level-2 field hospital.
Maj. Gen. Hoang Kim Phung, Director of theVietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations (VDPO), said the second hospitalwas set up under the Vietnam Military Medical University (VMMU). It currentlyhas 84 staff members, all of whom are ready to assume their new tasks.
The VDPO has coordinated with Australia and theVMMU since September 2017 in providing English language training to the staff.Fourteen of them have gained an IELTS score of 5.5 as requested by the UN, andtraining is being increased so as to maximise the number of those with an IELTSscore of at least 4.5.
Regarding specialised training, the departmenthas completed pre-deployment training, Phung said, adding that all of the staffhave received training in international humanitarian law. Some of them havealso taken part in intensive training courses on peacekeeping knowledge.
Training in terms of military, politics,logistics, and military medicine has also been provided by the VMMU, he noted.
Deputy Defence Minister Sen. Lt. Gen. Nguyen ChiVinh, head of the inter-sectoral working group on Vietnam’s participation inthe UN’s peacekeeping operations, said that sending the second level-2 fieldhospital to replace the first one, which was deployed to the UN mission inSouth Sudan last October, is an urgent and necessary task. It helps demonstratethat Vietnam is an active and responsible member in the internationalcommunity, and shows the country’s capability of taking part in suchoperations.
He also asked the VDPO, the VMMU, and relevantagencies to continue making sound preparations for the deployment of thishospital. –VNA
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