Inspection of detective pipes for poison chemical agents

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Secret and urgent

22nd Infantry division medical command
No.: Qaf 1\729
Date: 11\234\1985

Headquarters/Medical field unit/31
Secret
No.: Chemical\1658
Date:September 25, 1985

To: Medical field units 55, 65, 31
Subject: Inspection of detective pipes for poison chemical agents

Reference to the secret and urgent 22nd division \ operations chem. 56\2451, dated 9/17/1985,
please find enclosed the text of the chemical corps secret and urgent memo No. 9235, dated
9/10/1985. Please review and take action and advise.

Attachments:
Memo text

Signed by:
Lieutenant Colonel Dr.
Dia' Ridha Ali
22nd Infantry Division Medical Commandant
(signature of the above)

Corporal Hazem

(Handwritten is the following: chem. 9/25.)

[page-210]

In the name of God, the most merciful
Secret

Headquarters/Medical field unit/31
No.: Chem.
Date:

To: 22nd Infantry Division Medical Command
Subject: Inspection of detective pipes for poison chemical agents

Reference to your secret and urgent memo No. 729, dated 9/23/1985. We have been compensated
for the old detective pipes for poison chemical agents with new ones by 22nd Infantry Division
chemical Command. Please review.
Signed, but no names.

[page-211]

In the name of God, the most merciful
Secret and urgent

Headquarters/Medical field unit/31
No.: Chem.\3268
Date:Sept. 26, 1985

To: 22nd Infantry Division Medical Command
Subject: Inspection of detective pipes for poison chemical agents

Reference to your secret and urgent memo No. 729, dated 9/23/1985. Our unit has been
compensated for the old detective pipes for poison chemical agents with new ones by 22nd
Infantry Division Chemical Command. Please review.

Signed by:
Major Dr. Nabil Najmeldin Abdallah
Commandant, Medical field unit\31

The above has been filed.

[page-212]

In the name of God, the most merciful
Top Secret and urgent

Ministry of Defense
medical affairs directorate
No.: FA 1\S1\2919\16553
date: 9/7/1985

To: Military engineering directorate
Subject: Linen basin

Reference to the top secret and urgent memo of the medical affairs directorate No. 10641, dated
5/25/1985, please dispense one Linen basin, amplitude 3000 gallon for each medical field unit
because of the availability of a personnel disinfection vehicle in each one of the medical field units
as mentioned above.

signed by:
Major General
Salem Majid Alshamma'
Director of medical affairs directorate

CC:
Administration department
Chemical corps directorate
2n corps medical command, please review and follow up receipt of this item by medical field
units in your sectors.

Top Secret and urgent

Original copy

[page-213]

In the name of God, the most merciful
Top Secret and urgent

22nd Infantry Division Medical Commandant
No.: Qaf 2\25\1242
Date: 9/24/1985

Secret
Headquarters/Medical field unit/31
No.: Chem.\1659
Date:Sept. 25, 1985

To: Medical field unit 55, 65, 31
Subject: Linen basin

Enclosed, please find a copy of the top secret and urgent memo of the medical affairs directorate
No. 16553, dated 9/7/1985, reported to us in the 2nd corps medical command No. 2979, dated
9/17/1985. please receive one Linen basin, amplitude 3000 gallon for your medical field units
because of the availability of a personnel disinfection vehicle at the military engineering
directorate. pleas take action and advise.

Enclosures:
1. Memo

Signed by:
Lieutenant Colonel Dr.
Dia' Ridha Ali
22nd Infantry Division Medical Commandant
(signature of the above)

Corporal Hazem

Handwritten is the following: chem. 9/23.
Chem. take necessary action, and reply

[page-214]

In the name of God, the most merciful
Top Secret and urgent

Headquarters/Medical field unit/31
No.: Chem.\3267
Date:Sept. 26, 1985

To: 22nd Infantry Division Medical Command
Subject: Linen basin

Reference to your top secret and urgent memo No. 1242, dated 9/24/1985. One Linen basin,
amplitude 3000 gallon, has been received. Please review

Signed by:
Major Dr. Nabil Najmeldin Abdallah
Commandant, Medical field unit\31

Top secret and urgent

The above has been filed.

[page-215]

Numbers of officers and other ranks serving in the infected injury disinfection and treatment detachment

No.

Subject
Officer

Warr.
Officer

CSM

Corporal

Lance Cpl

Private

A.
A.
A.
A.
A.
A.
A.
A.
A.
A.
A.
A.
A.
A.

5.
6.

7.
Det. Comdt, Ist.
Lt
Warrant officer
nurse
Chem. Warrant
officer nurse
Company sergeant
major
Corporal
Lance Cpl.
Infantry
stretcher carrier
Private infantry
stretcher carrier
1
1

Total
1
1
4
3
1
1

2
2
1
1
3
3

Key:
A. Possession available

Signed by:
Major Dr. Nabil Najmeldin Abdallah
Commandant, Medical field unit\31

[back of page-215]

NAMES

Detachment commandant: Ist. Lt. Dr. Nabil Mahmoud Ahmad Mathloum
Warr.officer: Mohammad Abdelhussein Hassan
Chemical warrant officer: falah Mohammad Tahir
Company sergeant Major: Falah Hassan

Lance corporal Allawi Khalaf
Lance Cpl. Infantry stretcher carrier Abdelhasan Mohammad Abed
Private infantry stretcher carrier Mohammad Abdelhaitham Hussein, Ahmad
Abdelamir Rabah

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No.
EQIUPMENT
Form
number
Dispensing
Date
Number
Source
Note

1
Yugoslavic Prot. mask
7

11/19/1980
152
Medical field unit 23

2
Yugoslavic Prot. mask

8
Armored division
chemical branch
command\9

3
Individual Disinfection
and first aid kit
176
11/21/1980
152
Armored division
chemical branch
command\9

4
Individual Disinfection
and first aid kit

8
Armored division
chemical branch
command\9

5
Protective gown
7
11/19/1980
152
Medical field unit 23

6
Protective light gloves
176
11/21/1980
152
Armored division
chemical branch
command\9

7
Individual Vehicle
disinfection kit
176
11/21/1980
5
Armored division
chemical branch
command\9

8
Chemical observation kit
176
11/21/1980
1
Armored division
chemical branch
command\9

9
Radioactive scanner D.
B. 63
176
11/21/1980
1
Armored division
chemical branch
command\9

[back of page 216 is not legible)

[page-217]

Top secret and urgent

Plan for opening an Infected Injury Disinfection and treatment detachment

Appendix B
Wind direction
Clean area Infected area
1. Entrance for infected vehicles, Ambulance partial disinfection area
2. Reception tent
3. first aid tent
4. Tent for taking clothes off
5. tent for Bathing
6. Tent for disinfection
7. Tent for evacuation preparation, and covering the injured with blankets.
8. Evacuation tent
9. Clean (disinfected) vehicles from the advanced first aid station
10. To the advanced first aid station
11. To the advanced first aid station
12. Evacuation main axis

[page-218]
Top secret and urgent
Plan for Casualties Evacuation from an area hit with chemical weapons
Appendix A.
Front units
Uninfected casualties are cleared from the unit's first aid station without
any action to the casualty clearing station, except the life threatening
cases.
1. Uninfected casualties
2. Control
3. casualty clearing station
4. Infected casualties
5. Unit's first aid station
6. Infected Injury Disinfection and treatment detachment

A. The following should be done in the unit's first aid station:
1. Disinfect and first aid the cases that have not been disinfected
by the injured himself.
2. Complete treatment if symptoms have not gone away despite use of
individual disinfection and first aid kit by the injured himself.
3. Conduct artificial respiration and give Oxygen to cases requiring
that.
4. Treat and wrap injuries, and fill out the field form for the
injured and mark those for the infected with word "infected"
5. Treat the uninfected cases that are in a life threatening
situation, and treat as infected cases as far as evacuation
procedures are concerned, After that, the infected cases and other
chemically exposed cases to the chemical injury disinfection and
treatment detachment.
B. After casualties are disinfected at the detachment to the advanced first
aid station where injuries are bandaged with blankets, the treatment
completion should be conducted at the advanced first aid station.

[page-218 a]
1. Advanced First Aid Station
2. The first and second batch of uninfected Casualties should be moved to
the medical field unit if their wounds are open.
3. Medical field unit to remain clean, i.e, infected injuries are not to be
transferred to it.
4. Field Surgery Unit
5. Military hospitals and the other hospitals designated for uninfected
injuries.
6. Military hospitals, or hospital departments that are designated to
receive casualties whose infected injuries have been disinfected.
7. Casualties that need no hospitalization should be given service supplies
from the medical field unit. They can be returned to their units or kept
depending on their health status.
Casualties with wounds that have been disinfected and wrapped should be
moved to the hospitals designated to receive casualties with infected
wounds. These hospitals are as follows:
2nd corps:
Bacoba military hospital
Kut military hospital
Jalola military hospital
3rd corps and Shat al Arab operations:
Basra military hospital
4th corps and East Dejla operations
Amara military emergency hospital, and Hay AlHussein youth center.

[page-219 is a duplicate of 217]
Top secret and urgent

Plan for opening an Infected Injury Disinfection and treatment detachment

[page-220 A]
Top secret and urgent

Plan for Casualties Evacuation from an area subjected to a chemical weapons
attack
Appendix A.
Front units

Uninfected casualties are cleared from the unit's first aid station without
any action to the casualty clearing station, except the life threatening
cases.
1. Uninfected casualties
2. Control
3. casualty clearing station
4. Infected casualties
5. Unit's first aid station
6. Infected Injury Disinfection and treatment detachment

[page-220 B]
1. detachment for disinfection and treatment of infected injuries
2. Advanced First Aid Station
3. The first and second batch of uninfected Casualties should be moved to
the medical field unit if their wounds are open.
4. Medical field unit to remain clean, i.e, infected injuries are not to be
transferred to it.
5. Field Surgery Unit
6. Military hospitals and the other hospitals designated for uninfected
injuries.
7. Military hospitals, or hospital departments that are designated to
receive casualties whose infected injuries have been disinfected.
8. Casualties that need no hospitalization should be given service supplies
from the medical field unit. They can be returned to their units or kept
depending on their health status.
Casualties with wounds that have been disinfected and wrapped should be
moved to the hospitals designated to receive casualties with infected
wounds. These hospitals are as follows:
2nd corps:
Bacoba military hospital
Kut military hospital
Jalola military hospital
3rd corps and Shat al Arab operations:
Basra military hospital
4th corps and East Dejla operations
Amara military emergency hospital, and Hay AlHussein youth center.

[page-221]

In the name of God, the most merciful
Secret

Headquarters\Medical field command\31
No.: Chemical\--
Date: ---

To: 22nd infantry medical command
Subject: Plan for opening a disinfection station

Per the your top secret memo 1121, dated 8/27/1985, a detachment for
disinfection and treatment of infected injuries has been opened at our unit.
Please review.:

cc:
1. 22nd infantry command\operations\chemical, your top secret memo 2176, dated
8/24/1985. For review.