Army medics from Gosport join UN mission in South Sudan
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August 20, 2017 (JUBA) - 50 soldiers and medics from 33 Field Hospital
in Gosport made their final preparations to deploy in war-ravaged
South Sudan.
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British Troops, proudly wearing their distinctive blue UN berets
arrives in Juba on 2 May 2017 (UN/Isaac Billy Photo)
The unit, according to The News website, will form the main body of
troops who join their colleagues as part of the Field Hospital
advanced party.
33 Field Hospital is reportedly deploying in support of Operation
TRENTON, the British military’s response to the government’s
commitment to its United Nations’ obligations.
"We’ve had quite a long and extensive pre-deployment training package,
it seemed to go on forever,” Maj. Jon Lord told The News.
"33 Field Hospital last deployed in 2013 on Op Herrick and... we’re
due to be rationalised next year as part of the wider defence medical
service future plans,” he added.
The medic will reportedly be operating under the mandate of the UN
Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and that it will also be their
responsibility to take over the running of temporary tented field
hospital and to pave the way for a permanent facility capable of
serving and caring for up to 1800 multi-national peacekeepers.
In May this year, UNMISS said about 400 British troops arrived in
war-torn South Sudan to serve as peacekeepers. The United Kingdom
contingents, according to the UN, would provide a military engineering
taskforce to the Malakal and Bentiu Protection of Civilians sites
(POCs), as well as a Level II Hospital in Bentiu.
With almost 400 troops in total, the deployment in the East African
country was considered to be Britain’s largest operational deployment
across the whole world.
UNMISS replaced the UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) whose mandate expired
after South Sudan’s independence in July 2011 when six year interim
period of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) ended. The mandate
of UNMISS is the help South Sudan, the newest country in the world
consolidating peace and security and help create an environment for
development to take place.
On 27 May 2014, the Security Council, by unanimously adopting its
resolution 2155 (2014) reprioritized the mandate of UNMISS towards the
protection of civilians, human rights monitoring and support for the
delivery of humanitarian assistance, and increased the Mission’s troop
strength to 12,500 and a police component to up to 1,323 personnel, as
requested in the Secretary-General’s 6 March report.
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