{"id":97065,"date":"2018-10-30T17:16:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T17:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=b9a22e778f8aff234a2f2baee77fe4b6"},"modified":"2018-10-30T17:16:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T17:16:05","slug":"news-story-raf-medics-transfer-un-hospital-in-south-sudan-to-vietnamese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=97065","title":{"rendered":"News story: RAF medics transfer UN hospital in South Sudan to Vietnamese"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A team of 30 RAF medics have been deployed to the hospital as part of Operation TRENTON since July 2018, and will now train the Vietnamese unit on how to run a field hospital, before transferring organisation of the hospital over to them and returning to the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The UN field hospital was initially established early in 2017 and has provided medical care to over 1,800 UN military personnel and civilian staff.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/80623\/PJHQ-TRENTON-UNCLASS-20181026-044-022GOV.jpg\" alt=\"British personnel take down a flag as they hand over the hospital to their Vietnamese partners.\"><\/div><figcaption>British personnel take down a flag as they hand over the hospital to their Vietnamese partners.  Crown copyright.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Warrant Officer Naya Heseltine said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">It\u2019s a poignant part of the UN Peacekeeping mission for the UK to handover responsibility of the Role 2 Hospital to the Vietnamese. For us, it has been a momentous occasion and a privilege to have been a part of the first RAF hospital deployment in 27 years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The UK Engineer Task Force began building a bespoke Level 2 hospital earlier in 2018, of which the Vietnamese Hospital Unit will move into from their temporary tented hospital soon.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/80624\/PJHQ-TRENTON-UNCLASS-20181026-044-026GOV.jpg\" alt=\"The Vietnamese troops who are taking over the running of the field hospital from the UK.\"><\/div><figcaption>The Vietnamese troops who are taking over the running of the field hospital from the UK.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAF Medical Services have begun transferring authority of a UN field hospital in South Sudan to a Vietnamese Hospital Unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}