Military medicine

The troops of the Carpathian Pumas Detachment took over on Tuesday the missions from their colleagues who acted, between October 2019 - April 2020, in the first rotation of the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Republic of Mali / MINUSMA, shows a release from the Ministry of National Defence (MApN).

Minister of National Defence Gabriel Les gave assurance that the Hospital Military will benefit from the entire support of the Ministry of National Defence (MApN) in ensuring all the necessary resources for the development of its infrastructure projects meant to improve the work conditions of the medical staff, so that the military and civil patients will benefit from medical services to match

After a Croatian war veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder burned his own house down, experts warned that many ex-soldiers in the country still need psychosocial care.

Rampelia Patinioti (c) is examined by military doctor Perikles Syros (l) during a mission of medical staff organized by the Hellenic Navy on the Aegean island of Anafi earlier this month.

Defense Minister Panos Kammenos accepted on Wednesday a proposal made by the Greek Medical Association, which suggested that doctors can perform their military service by working on remote islands and other hard-to-reach parts of the country.

The association said that this would be a good way of tackling the shortage of medics in some parts of the country.

The issue of veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder was raised again this week when Macedonian police detained a 40-year-old veteran from the southern town of Kavadarci on Tuesday on suspicion of killing his wife's sister and both her parents in their family home.

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All doctors from the Emergency Care unit in Sofia have resigned collectively.

The medics are holding a protest at the Health Ministry, according to reports of the Bulgarian National Radio (BNR).

A soldier opened fire in the US army base Ft. Hood, wounding 16, killing three soldiers and himself. 

Federal officials said the shooter - Army serviceman Ivan Lopez, 34 - was being treated for anxiety, depression and was under evaluation for post-traumatic stress disorder at the time of the shooting on the base. 

BELGRADE - The pillars of Serbian statehood, which include the Ministry of Defence and the Serbian Armed Forces, are the institutions the Serbian citizens traditionally trust the most, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has said in Belgrade.