Dutch soldiers withdrawn from post in Mali for reasons of quality NOW

Twenty Dutch explorers who collect intelligence for the UN mission in Mali fall back on Gao. In this city, a little further south and closer to the inhabited world, they join the other Dutch soldiers in the Sahel.

The Kidal hospital, where wounded soldiers would be treated by Togolese doctors, has been in existence for some time. worry. After the mortar accident that killed two Dutch soldiers, the Dutch Security Office (OVV) concluded that the care provided to the Dutch in Mali was inadequate.

The organization maintains that the Togolese staff has been satisfactory so far. the change has come. The Togolese medical team was relieved by a team that "is not sufficiently familiar with the protocols and therefore not trained in proper treatment methods," writes Minister Ank Bijleveld to the House of Representatives.

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OVV, who also found that everything was wrong with the mortar grenades used, cost the head to the then defense minister, Jeanine Hennis. Since then, the House of Representatives has paid particular attention to medical care for soldiers stationed in Mali.

There were doubts about the Togolese hospital, but also about the evacuation helicopters prepared by the United Nations. That's why the Dutch have stayed closer to their side in the last few months.

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