Halsall Nurse Helps Fly Back Casualties Back From Afghanistan-Sgt Joanna Baldwin

Sergeant Joanna Baldwin Royal Air Force, 27, from Halsall near Ormskirk, has been deployed in Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, as a Flight nurse for the UK Joint Force Medical Group Aeromed section.

Joanna looks after the patients that have to be transported by air back to the UK or around Afghanistan, and is serving with 5 Medical Regiment at the Role 3 Hospital in Camp Bastion in Afghanistan. The UK Medical Group provides the full spectrum of medical care support to UK and ISAF Forces deployed in Helmand Province and wider Afghanistan, from care at the point of injury though hospital treatment to evacuation back to the UK. The current UK Med Gp deployed on Operation Herrick 18 is based around 5 Medical Regiment who provide the Role 1 Medical Regiment who provide the pre-hospital emergency care, the deployed ambulance service and primary health care which is a deployed GPs surgery. 33 Field Hospital provide the core staff for the Role 3 hospital who are responsible for the deployed hospital care of the troops deployed in Afghanistan.

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