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(1) Facilities
(a) Medical facilities afloat are those organic to assigned ships.
Ships shall be prepared to provide treatment and hospitalization for other elerents of Task Forces |
(b) Medical facilities ashore are provided at ENIWETOK by CTG 7.2,
and at KWAJAIEIN by C. 0., NavSta, KwaJ,
(c) In case medical emergencies occur where proper nedical
facilities are not available, such eases should be transferred to the nearest
adequate medjcal facility by the most expeditious means possible.
(2) of
(a) Although medical facilities afloat and at ENIWETOK and
KWAJALEIN are sufficient to take care of the normal necds of CTG 7.3, in case
of a mjor catastrophe, serious epidemic, or other occasion where evacuation
is indicated, air evacuation will be coordinated by CJTF SEVEN fron ENIWETOK
to KWAJALEIN and onward to QiHU for hospitalizetion at Tripler Army Hospital.
The facilities of fleet aircraft and MATS will be mde available for air
evacuation lift.
(b)
Personnel, who in the opinion of appropriate medical
authorities cannot be returned to duty within fifteen (15) days, normlly
shall be transferred to the Army Hospital, ENIWETOK, where they will be held
and treated until air evacuation has bgen arranged by CTG 7.2. Military and
civil service personnel will be evacuated to the Tripler Army Hospital, OAHU,
T. He
All others will be evacuated to civilian hospitals on QAHU, T. H,
(3) Preventive
(a) All units assigned to TG 7.3 shall institute a continuing
program to control cutbreak of disease, to inprove sanitation, and to control
insects and rodents in accordance with Chapter 22, BuMed Mamal,
(4) Burials
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(a) BuMed Manual, Chapter 17, contains current directives
relative to burials and the treneportation of remmins where death occurs
outside the Continental United States.
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