Monday, March 08, 2010

Saving a life in Afghanistan

The Daily Mail tells the story of those involved in saving the life of a British soldier wounded in camp in Afghanistan:
Revealed: How hundreds of military personnel, millions of pounds and an experimental 'lung' saved the life of a British soldier... shot by accident in his own camp...

He needed a portable, low-pressure artificial lung and the Americans offered to help. But the bureaucracy of moving from the British to the American military system meant that valuable time was being lost...

Enter independent correspondent Michael Yon, who contacted the "Soldiers Angels" in Germany, and next thing, a German artificial lung was on the way..

Headsup BelmontClubBlog.

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