Medical troops only “on paper”. Expert: We have organizational chaos, why such nativity scenes?
Medical troops sound attractive, but without repairing foundations it is only a signboard. In an interview with Colonel bow. wet. Marcin Buszko, former deputy head of the Military Health Service Board, point by point, we deal with legislative “throws”, media shortcuts and myths, asking what military medicine will really heal.
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Medical army is primarily a political slogan – without a clear definition of the composition, a place in the structure and operational tasks.
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Instead of creating a new existence, you need to complete existing medical sub -units and reproduce the full security chain.
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Playing the Military Medical Academy would make sense only in the perspective of 20-25 years, today the priority is medical education at civilian universities, and “militarization” only after the final medical exam.
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The most urgent deficiencies among military medics: “injury” specialists (surgery, anesthesiology and intensive therapy, orthopedics/traumatology, emergency medicine).
Why were the “medical troops” created?
Tomasz Stankiewicz, “Directly”: The Minister of National Defense announced the establishment of a new formation in the Polish Army, the Medical Forces. What they are to be?
Col. bow. wet. Marcin Buszko: And here is the heart of the problem. Contrary to how it is presented, little is known. The slogans are: “Medical army is a great idea”, but this is not proof of the need to create a new existence. Rather, this is proof that the solutions so far did not work because nobody kept proper supervision over them. Please remember: From 2017, we do not have the head of the Polish Army Health Service. By eliminating this function, the director of the Military Health Service Department was created – and today we have effects in the form of organizational chaos.
