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	Page 8 		1 Sep 90 - 1800 Hours
 		             C+25

            			OPERATION DESERT SHIELD
            		 OTHER SIGNIFICANT MEDICAL ACTIVITIES
             		NEW  INFORMATION UNDERLINED
               (SOURCE:  J-4  BRIEFING DOCUMENTS unless otherwise noted)

         - Blood Inventory (as of 3112002 Aug 90)
               --Units in AOR
               --- 1,895 units liquid RBC (USCENTCOM REAR MSG 0110002 Sep 90)
              --- 120 units frozen RBC

       -- Units in AO to expire within 7 days
     	 --- 169 units liquid RBC

     -- Units in USEUCOM
       --- BTC at Torrejon: 653 Units	120 units frozen RBC

       -- CONUS 
         --- ASWBPL I McGuire: 666 units liquid (Source: ASWBPL)
	       311200Z Aug 90)
		   1495 units frozen
          		      432 units frozen RBC shipped ETA: 2 Sep
 		      224 units FFP shipped ETA: 2 Sep

       - Current hospital beds in AOR - 600 total

            -- 350 host nation beds
              --- 250 at Salmanyia
              --- 100 at Bahrain
           -- 200 AF beds (50-Dhahran, 50 Al-Dahfra, 25-Riyadh, 50-Thumrait, 25-
                 Jeddah)
            -- 25 Army beds (Dhahran)
            -- 25 British Defense medical Service beds (Dhahran)

       NOTE: There are no host nation beds available in Saudi Arabia.

       - Total projected U.S. beds: 7250

       - MEDEVAC aircraft:
            ---12 medical UH-60s in theater night of 31 Aug.


       - An ADVON team of 221 people for the 250 bed contingency
       hospital is loaded in the TPFDD with a RDD of C+55 (1 Oct 90). The
       equipment package has a RDD of C+65 (11 Oct 90).

           - - MEDSTATS: (Source: USCINCCENT/CSG Msg 3122002Z AUG 90)

        -- Beds Occupied: 	     82   (26 Army, 9 Navy, 32 USMC,15 AF)
        -- Outpatient Visits:     658    (263 Army, 5 Navy, 68 USMC, 322 AF)
        -- Aeromed Evac (Last 24 Hours]:  TAC:  14       STRAT: 0


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