Government plans to send field hospital to Afghanistan

The newly-appointed government led by Mirek Topolanek has indicated it intends to send additional military personnel to serve in a field hospital mission at Kabul airport, Afghanistan. The rotating mission is to last one year with around seventy personnel taking part. Previously, members of the elite 6th field hospital provided treatment for the wounded and ill in both Afghanistan and Iraq. If the plan is approved, members will join other Czech personnel in Afghanistan already serving under NATO both at Kabul airport as well as in northern parts of the country.