It is the first domestically made model of its kind, with China’s army medics previously having to import medical training dummies from abroad. The drive to improve the training of battlefield medics is part of a wider push to modernise the armed forces and enhance their combat capabilities. “China lags far behind in medical training across all disciplines, especially when considering China has been at peace since the Sino-Vietnamese war in 1979,” Zhou added. “Both China’s field medical stations and army hospitals need to improve, although the Chinese army has made some progress in this regard,” he said. By contrast the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 gave its military a greater sense of urgency when it came to improving its battlefield medical care.

Source: The Star June 11, 2019 05:48 UTC