Ustroj sanitetske službe 105. brigade Hrvatske vojske
The Organisation of the Ambulance Service of the 105th Brigade of the Croatian Army

Summary/Abstract: The Ambulance Service of the 105th Brigade of the Croatian Army was organised pursuant to the recommendations of the Croatian Army Headquarters. It was actively operating on the fronts where this Brigade was fighting – western Slavonia; eastern Slavonia; Posavina; during the operations Bljesak (Flash) and Oluja (Storm) – throughout the war 1991–1995. During its active wartime operation, the Ambulance Service took care of the military units of the Brigade and other units in the field, as well as of the civil population. In its work, the Ambulance Service followed the echelon type of providing care for the wounded and the injured, as well as the principles of war medicine and primary war surgery. In total, 7,323 interventions were performed: 6,781 medical examinations, and 271 operations (21 in general, and 250 in local analgesic anaesthesia). Additionally, blood group and Rh-factor determination, as well as the vaccination of all members of the Brigade, were carried out. The wartime mortality rate in the Brigade in the period 1991–1992 equalled 2.2 percent. Both the doctors and the medical staff of the Ambulance Service of the 105th Brigade have contributed considerably to the development of the war medical care in Croatia, which fact was published in numerous papers, congress reports and books.

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