The first buildings of the military hospital in the Marmal Camp have been completed

After 15 days' installation, our team safely returned from the Marmal Camp on February 8, 2007.

On January 26, 2007, our team set out from Cologne-Wahn military airport for their journey past Termez (Uzbekistan) to Marmal Camp in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan. Thanks to the good preparation and the successful railway and truck transportation of all materials, work could immediately start once on site.

"As with all installations abroad, it is always exciting to see if everything is available on site as you simply can't quickly dash to B&Q to get a missing piece of hose when you're in the desert. Thanks to the excellent preparation however everything was fine, and we're perfectly on time. The Bundeswehr's field kitchen is exquisite, which lifts our spirits under the extreme desert conditions.
It's only the body armour which is mandatory on one's way to and from the manoeuvring area and the ever present armed soldiers that remind us where we actually are…"
Elmar Bünger, CEO of Bünger Labortechnik.

Meanwhile two of the four buildings are ready for operation. In building 2 (disinfection section and intensive care unit) and building 3 (surgery, A&E unit, radiology), day to day work will soon commence, followed by building 4 (ambulance) and building 1 (laboratory, pharmacy).

Work will restart next April, and after some three or four weeks of installation work at the most the last two buildings can be commissioned.

In an interview broadcast by the SWR3 radio station, Peter Struck, who briefed himself just like defence minister Dr. Franz Josef Jung on the occasion of a visit to the troops in Marmal Camp, said that this Afghanistan military hospital is the most advanced and best equipped of those of the Bundeswehr.

Related links

Das Camp Marmal stellt sich vor (Official Site of Bundeswehr)
Camp Marmal at Wikipedia (German)
Steiner Chemie und Labortechnik

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