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Troops in Afghanistan have been supported by a team of expert medics dedicated to providing the best care for their wounded colleagues.

Although Camp Bastion has closed, the life-saving treatment provided by medical personnel has not been forgotten.

This treatment often started on the front line with immediate emergency first aid from combat medical technicians and the medical emergency response teams (MERT) who rescued casualties just after injury.

At Bastion’s Role 3 Hospital (the military designation for the level of healthcare it provides), injured personnel received treatment so advanced that over the last 8 years it became one of the world’s leading trauma care facilities.

And for the most seriously injured, who often required intensive life support, there were the critical care air support teams who evacuated patients back to the UK on board a specially adapted RAF transport plane – often within hours of being injured.

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