450 beds stand ready in nine different field hospitals all over Kosovo. A total of 17 professional surgical teams stand by in the field hospitals 24 hours a day to perform all kinds of general surgery. As soon as the situation should require it, the bed capacity can be extended from 450 to nearly 700 beds. And in addition to the nine field hospitals, there are several smaller medical treatment units at battalion level, which treat their own personnel in addition to civilian patients from the AORs. Turkey recognizes the Republic of Macedonia with its constitutional name.
Dental assistance is a popular service at the field hospitals.
In MNB East, Task Force Falcon daily works to improve the lives of local people in their sector who haven t seen a doctor or dentist in a long time. The 299th Forward Support Battalion, 1st Infantry Division of the US Army contributes to the mission by bringing medical and dental assistance to remote villages as part of the Medical Civilian Aid Program. According to Maj Michael Evans, dental surgeon, 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, the medics are able to assist six villages each month, but a dentist is only available to accompany the team to two villages. Constraints like time, transportation, force protection, finding where help is most needed, limited supplies and dealing with their main priority, soldiers, are hard to work around. We want to do so much more, but we don t have the resources to spare.