Army Medical Corps (Pakistan)

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Pakistan Army Medical Corps
AMC (Pakistan) Badge.jpg
Badge of Pakistan Army Medical Corps
Active1947;76 years ago (1947)
CountryFlag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan
BranchFlag of the Pakistani Army.svg  Pakistan Army
Type Combined and combat support service
Role Administrative and staffing oversight.
SizeVaries
HQ/Garrison Abbottabad Cantonment, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan
Nickname(s)MC
Colors IdentificationRed
 
Anniversaries1947
Engagements Military history of Pakistan
Commanders
Surgeon-General Lt-Gen. Mohsin M. Qureshi
Notable
commanders		 Lt-Gen. Nigar Johar
Lt-Gen. Wajid Ali Khan
Maj-Gen. Shahida Malik
Insignia
War Flag
Flag of the Pakistani Army.svg

The Pakistan Army Medical Corps is a military administrative, combined arms, and the combat support branch of the Pakistan Army, mainly concerns with the military medicines. [1]

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Initially part of the former British Indian Army's Medical Corps in 1947, the medical corps also leads a role in combat disease outbreaks and researching medicines on behalf of Government of Pakistan.: 169  [2]

Mission

To support the Army in all its combat operations, so that the move of the Army is facilitated offensive operations and the move of the enemy is impeded while own Army in defense. Medical Corps Doctors are also responsible for the survivability of the Army, serving each and every soldier both in the battle field and back in the temporary and permanent care hospitals." [3]

Induction

1. Medical cadets from Army Medical College CMH Lahore Medical College, CMH Kharian Medical College,CMH Bahawalpur Medical College,CMH Karachi (Malir) medical college, CMH Multan Medical College and CMH Quetta Medical College after completion of basic military training at Pakistan Military Academy join this corps.

2. The civil medical college graduated students / specialists are also inducted into Army Medical Corps. Divided into two categories, SSRC and PTC, they undergo basic military training at AMC School and Centre Abbotabad for 22 weeks and 12 weeks respectively. [4]

3. Female medical cadets from Army Medical College train for 22 weeks in AFPGMI. The same goes for the female civil medical college graduated students / specialists.

4. Soldiers in nursing and other trades of Army Medical Corps cadre undergo their basic military training and nursing classes at AMC centre Abottabad and subsequent professional courses at AFPGMI.

Aims and objectives

Besides their primary role in serving the Pakistan Army both in battle and in the conditions of peace, the Pakistan Army Medical Corps undertakes the following peace time activities:

History

Before the First World War, the men of the Indian Army depended on their regimental hospitals for their medical treatment. In October 1918, Station Hospitals were sanctioned for the Indian troops to help improve the provision of services. The Indian Hospital Corps (IHC) was initially divided into ten Division Companies, which corresponded to the ten existing Military Divisions in India and Burma. They were located at Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Quetta, Mhow, Poona, Meerut, Lucknow, Secunderabad and Rangoon. After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, the Pakistan Army raised its own medical corps.

Since then the Pakistan Army Medical Corps has provided services in the majority of health related fields. In the past personnel were taken from Army Medical College in Rawalpindi, but with the need of more health professionals in the army as well as an increased demand for their services, the corps has begun to recruit civilians medical personnel, who then attend short military courses.

Combined Military Hospitals

Combined Military Hospitals (CMHs) are the base hospitals of the Pakistan Armed Forces, which are situated in various cantonments. These hospitals are run by the doctors of Pakistan's Army Medical Corps. The administration is carried out by the General Duty Medical Officers (GDMOs) while the patients' management and care is primarily the responsibility of the doctors of specialist cadre.

The CMHs are categorized into three major parts depending on their functions, governing and physical body and role as Class 'A', Class 'B' and Class 'C' Hospitals.[ citation needed ]

United Nations and the Pakistan Army Medical Corps

The Pakistan Army Medical Corps is one of the largest contributors of health services to United Nations. Since 1960 Pakistan has been actively involved in most of the UN peacekeeping, rehabilitation and health providing missions and today stands at the top with 10,175 troops and observers serving in current missions. The Pakistan Army Medical Corps is a major part of it. Some of the largest contributions have been in Somalia, Sierra Leone, Bosnia, Congo and Liberia. [5] In the wake of the new world power equilibrium a more complex security environment has emerged. It is characterised by growing national power politics and state implosions which have necessitated involvement of the United Nations peace keeping forces for conflict resolution.

The United Nations has been undertaking peace keeping operations since its inception, but the need for employment of peace keeping forces has increased significantly since the Gulf War. In 1992 there were 11,000 Blue Berets deployed around the world; by the end of the year the figure rose to 52,000. Presently it exceeds 80,000 troops.

The table below shows the current deployment of Pakistani Forces in UN Peacekeeping missions.

Start of operationName of operationLocationConflictContribution
1999United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.svg Democratic Republic of Congo Second Congo War 3,556 troops [6]
2003United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) Flag of Liberia.svg Liberia Second Liberian Civil War 2,741 troops [6]
2004United Nations Operation in Burundi ONUB Flag of Burundi.svg Burundi Burundi Civil War 1,185 troops [6]
2004United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) Flag of Cote d'Ivoire.svg Côte d'Ivoire Civil war in Côte d'Ivoire 1,145 troops [6]
2005United Nations Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS) Flag of Sudan.svg Sudan Second Sudanese Civil War 1,542 troops [6]
Staff/observers191 observers [6]

National relief works

Pakistani soldiers carrying tents away from a U.S. CH-47 Chinook helicopter, October 19, 2005 Pakistan aid.jpg
Pakistani soldiers carrying tents away from a U.S. CH-47 Chinook helicopter, October 19, 2005

In times of natural disaster, such as the great floods of 1992 or the devastating October 2005 earthquake, army engineers, medical and logistics personnel, and the armed forces have played a major role in bringing relief and supplies.

The army has also engaged in extensive corporate activities. Most of these enterprises, such as stud and dairy farms, were for the army's own use, but others, such as bakeries, security services and banking, perform functions in the local civilian economy. Army factories have produced such goods as sugar, fertilizer, and brass castings which have then been sold to civilian consumers, albeit at prices higher than those charged from military personnel. [7]

Several army organizations operate in the commercial sector across the country. For example, the National Logistics Cell was responsible for trucking food and other goods across the country; the Frontier Works Organization built the Karakorum Highway to China; and the Special Communication Organization maintained communications networks in remote parts of Pakistan.

The Pakistan Army has been involved in relief activities not only in Pakistan but also in many other countries of the world, such as the relief activities after Bangladesh was recently hit by floods. The Army also dispatched relief to Indonesia, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka after they were hit by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and the resulting tsunami. Both the Pakistan Army and Navy sent ships and helicopters to assist in the tsunami relief operation.

The Army Medical Corps are responsible for providing medical facilities and organizing free medical camps in under privileged tribal areas such as the Federally Administered Tribal Areas in the North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa). [8] The medical corps provided health-care facilities to more than 12,000 people affected by the 2010 floods in Pakistan. [9] [10]

Army doctors and international disasters

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