Open AccessMedical Support of the Sinai Multinational Force and Observers: An Update, 2020
Author(s) -
James I Gragg,
Nathaniel Sheehan,
Louis Weldon,
Seth Ver Vande Kamp,
Edgie-Mark Co
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
military medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.442
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1930-613X
pISSN - 0026-4075
DOI - 10.1093/milmed/usab109
Subject(s) - multinational corporation , peacekeeping , north atlantic treaty , military medicine , political science , pandemic , treaty , crash , navy , face (sociological concept) , law , medicine , covid-19 , public relations , sociology , politics , computer science , disease , programming language , social science , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
The Multinational Force and Observers in Sinai is a 13-nation international peacekeeping organization with the mission to implement the security provisions of the 1979 Egyptian–Israeli Treaty of Peace and continues today after approximately four decades. Despite not having significant changes to its core mission of force health protection, the medical team has recently evolved to face several challenges, with a coronavirus pandemic and a fatal helicopter crash. This article describes the medical challenges and experiences of the medical team from August 2019 to December 2020, highlighting changes from previous years. This article also updates three previous articles on the subject published in Military Medicine in 1983, 1991, and 2003.
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