Army Medics

Launched in co-operation with the Kenyan Ministry of Health, the purpose of Exercise Sharp Point is to conduct a live military exercise in challenging conditions over extended lines of communication using military logistics. This film follows the story of the British Army medics who were deployed to a remote corner of North-East Africa to test their life saving skills.

Under primitive conditions, through torrential rain and oppressive heat, men and women of the 19th Airmobile Field Ambulance administer aid to the native Turkana and Samburu tribes of the Kenyan outback. In all 11,247 people were treated over a period of five weeks. Some had walked for hundreds of miles over several days, for the vast majority of tribesmen it was the first medical attention they had ever received.

The film includes interviews and fly-on-the-wall coverage as the troops go through survival training, their journey into the bush and eventual treatment of a whole host of ailments ranging from serious infections to skin diseases and malaria.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• medicine
• military
• africa
• documentary
• british army
• kenya
• life saving