Title:OPENING OF THE NEW HOSPITAL AT CAMP BASTION, AFGHANISTAN, 6 FEBRUARY 2008 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 1357
Other titles:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE (DMOC) VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: The new permanent hospital at Camp Bastion (formally known as the Medical Treatment Facility) is opened by Bob Ainsworth MP, Minister for the Armed Forces.
Description: Personnel gather outside the Medical Treatment Facility.
Bob Ainsworth arrives and meets ambulance crews. Formal opening of the hospital. Leader of 243 (Wessex) Field Hospital TA introduces the hospital before the formal unveiling of a plaque by Bob Ainsworth. Padre Rose Thomas blesses the hospital. Mr Ainsworth is taken on a tour of the hospital, where he meets various members of staff. and patients (including a baby girl).
Interview with senior medical officer (not named); he stresses that most of the patients are in fact Afghan nationals.
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE (DMOC) VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:No
Object_Number:BFV 1357
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:2001-2025
Production Date:2008-02-06
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre (Production company)
Farrell, Mike (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Ainsworth, Robert William 'Bob' (person)
British Army, Territorial Army, 243 (Wessex) Field Hospital (regiment/service)
Keywords: Camp Bastion, Helmand, Afghanistan (geography)
British Operations in Afghanistan from 2002 (event)
British Army post-2000 (theme)
Afghanistan post-2001 (theme)
