Rescue Operations by the Military Nurse during Conflict: Insurgency
Abstract
H Bashari
Whenever there is disaster or conflict the first thing that comes to mind is rescue. Immediately all the necessary organizations swing into action to rescue and evacuate victims or casualties. It is always an organized activity involving the rescue team of the nation or state that is the military, police and other trained personnel. In most cases the rescue team goes to the site with trained medical personnel who are in most cases military/police with ambulances and sometimes with Aircrafts on standby for emergency evacuation. Conflicts can sometimes be positive or negative consequences thus before any rescue operation is carried out it must be well planned and organized by the organizations concern. The situation must be well understood and surveyed so as to devise a standardized way of dealing with any type of conflict. Disasters are also included during any conflict because no conflict or disaster occurs without loss of lives or destruction. The military in such cases are always deployed to handle such incidents in conjunction with the police and other trained personnel of the rescue team. However, during insurgency only the military or uniformed personnel are deployed to handle the situations. As such only a military nurse can be sent to attend to the hostages or casualties under a special cover with the hope of being a mediator between the authorities and the terrorists. One cannot discuss conflict without disasters, terrorism and insurgency. Thus no nation today that is not affected by any of the above therefore many countries have ready made plans to fall back to at any point such situations/ calamities occur with a well trained rescue teams on standby.