Czechs to offer health care to wounded Ukrainians, Kurds

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Source: CTK / Prague Monitor

Czech military health facilities are to offer treatment to Ukrainian soldiers severely wounded in the fighting against pro-Russian rebels and to Iraqi Kurds wounded while fighting IS militants, according to a proposal submitted by the Defence Ministry, daily Pravo wrote on Tuesday.

The health centres should accept 30 wounded Ukrainian or Kurdish patients a year. The costs of their transfer by military planes and their medical treatment would reach 30 million crowns, one million per each patient, the paper writes.

The ministry has come up with a proposal to help the soldiers who have been wounded in countries with an unreliable security situation. Ukrainians and Kurds are the first to be offered the help, Pravo writes, but says it is not clear how long the programme should last.

"A number of the wounded die or survive with impaired health as a result of the lacking early and qualified medical care in the conflict areas," the ministry argues in support of its proposal that is to be discussed by the cabinet in the weeks to come.

Read more: http://praguemonitor.com/2016/07/13/czechs-offer-health-care-wounded-ukrainians-kurds

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1. Are they offering to provide medical care to the civilians too?

This is an excellent idea and if possible should be extended to other people injured iin Ukraine and Syria, on both sides of both conflicts. Heck in Iraq and Afghanistan too, but that is probably putting too much of a burden on the Czech Republic.

Also, it seems strange to limit it to soldiers. Why are civilians excluded?