Originally posted by ancientmariner
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The only way to guarantee that is to enter expensive loss making contracts that is State supports and that (outside of an emergency) isn’t possible
Originally posted by ancientmariner
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Originally posted by hptmurphy
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Originally posted by Flamingo
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The military needs the capacity to be able to deploy, establish and man a Fd Hospital. This really has to be Role 2 minimum (really role 2 and 3). The major issue is that it could man it possibly but they need to be people who are dealing with major trauma casualties on a weekly basis, there are a few possible ways of the DF doing that:
(a) the RDF (who will be pulled from HSE staff and therefore unavailable most of the time and already over worked)
(b) semi-permanently embed PDF personnel in HSE (what happens HSE when they are required, not available for DF tasks)
(c) attach (few shifts a week) PDF personnel in HSE (what happens HSE when they are required, lesser degree of exposure to trauma and less availability for DF tasks)
(d) have it DF only but deploy regularly (extremely regularly) with UN, Irish Aid etc etc
The DF currently have to send paramedics to HSE to retain sufficient patient contact to retain currency and that isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
Anything can be a Fd Hospital a tent, a ship, an exhibition hall (cleaners, engineers, etc required) - if it doesn’t have medical personnel and equipment it isn’t a Fd Hospital!
The DF had one that was based on expanding 20ft containers, it was role 1 due to the manning.
Look at the Italian army - their medical service is provided by the Order of Malta.
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