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NATO's medical team near Bagh, Pakistan, already treating hundreds of people a day, reached a new milestone on 9 November as a sophisticated 60-bed inpatient facility opened its doors.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — NATO's medical team near Bagh, already treating hundreds of people a day, reached a new milestone today as a sophisticated 60-bed inpatient facility opened its doors.
In a race against time, NATO medics have already been caring for hundreds of people per day with medical teams combing the area by car and foot treating the injured and sick. In the mean time, work continued on the main hospital facility, which today begins providing a range of care including complex surgical procedures.
According to the multinational unit's Operations Officer, Dutch Captain Jelle Bijlsma, these teams have found many people in need.
"We began sending out mobile medical teams less than two days after we got here and have been sending four teams out each day. As of this morning we are able to start admitting people for in-patient care," Capt. Bijlsma added.
"We're operational now, but we will continue to add more capability as we get more medical personnel. Some treatments are more complex; others can be done quickly. But on the average, we should be able to see around three hundred people per day right now," Capt Bijlsma said.
Another 30 medical personnel from the Czech Republic will join the NATO team tomorrow. A British casualty staging team will arrive soon to treat critically ill patients.
With snow expected soon, already difficult-to-reach areas will become nearly impossible—but that won't keep the NATO teams from trying.
"We've been talking to Pakistani authorities about using donkeys to get medicines and doctors out into the mountains," Capt. Bijlsma said.
The scale of the devastation is daunting, but NATO will continue delivering relief to those in need.