ATM to train doctors at Rohingya camp field hospital

The Malaysian Armed Forces (ATM) will be training medical officers including doctors from the Health Ministry (KKM) to use the facilities at the field hospital in Rohingya ethnic refugee camp at Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh.

Armed Forces chief General Tan Sri Raja Mohamed Affandi Raja Mohamed Noor said apart from KKM medical officers and doctors, medical officers from non-governmental organisations (NGO) would also be trained.

"We at ATM will provide a field hospital complete with various facilities to treat refugees and at the same time, we will also train KKM and NGO doctors to use the facilities.

"ATM is prepared to mobilise field hospital assets to Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh and we have studied the locations to ensure they are suitable for field hospitals," he said when contacted by Bernama here today.

Yesterday, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi in a visit to Rohingya refugee camp in Kutupalong announced Malaysia would be building a RM3.5 million field hospital at the refugee camp to house ethnic Rohingya patients.

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He said the ATM medical corps would be building the hospital which would initially have 50 beds.

The hospital will be built in a month and would be manned by 35 personnel including doctors, hospital assistants and nurses.

-- BERNAMA