Some 800 soldiers, including thirty women, receive training on Saturday and Sunday at the barracks of Beer (VD). From Sunday, they will be hired in hospitals.
After being mobilized Thursday at the Moudon barracks (VD), the Hospital 2 battalion and the medical company 1 joined the Beer barracks on Thursday evening, said Major Maxime Fontaine, head of communications for Territorial Division 1 on Saturday in Keystone -ATS.
The 800 blue berets who will be engaged in the French-speaking cantons and that of Bern receive an instruction there by doctors and specialists. It allows them to quickly acquire or refresh their knowledge.
The training covers four areas, explains the manager: patient monitoring (vital data, pressure, temperature, cleansing), “low level care”, namely basic daily care, such as bandages and ointments, certain injections and blood tests, as well as patient transport. It aims to relieve various civil structures.
Sleep head to tail
Several measures have been taken in the barracks to reduce the risk of contamination. Everyone wears a mask as part of the instruction. The sanitary must get used to wearing it and putting it on correctly, explains Major Fontaine.
In the dormitories, soldiers sleep in reverse so that the heads are at least two meters apart. Drastic precautions are also taken for canteen meals.
War mobilization
From Sunday, the troop will move on to concrete things. Part of the soldiers will remain stationed in Beer, the others according to the locations to which they will be attached.
The blue berets were summoned on Thursday to perform three weeks of rehearsal lessons. Leave is not allowed. If the mission were to extend, they would remain on duty. “We are on war mobilization,” said the head of communications. A total of 8,000 soldiers were called across Switzerland. (ats / nxp)
Created: 03/21.2020, 3:29 p.m.
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