ITALY
Italian Republic
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Capital: .......................................... Rome Area: .............................................. 301 336 km² Population: .................................... 60 918 000 Official Language: ........................... Italian Armed Forces Personnel: ................. 181 450 Medical Officers: ............................. 1.566 Military Hospitals/Institutes: ........... 3/2 Missions: ........................................ multiple
Surgeon General Nicola Sebastiani Major General
Basic Task of the Military Medical Service The Military Medical Service shall: • Check the suitability of citizens for military service. • Check the suitability of military personnel for un - conditional military service. • Take care of the health status of the military personnel. • Ensure for the supply and fitting of technical materials and general service required in time of peace, war or serious international crisis. • Any other legal requirement under the provisions of the present Military Code, regulations or by law.
Structure Surgeon General The Italian Military Medical Service is built on top of a joint body, formed by the General Inspectorate of the Military Health Services, framed within the Defence General Staff organization and it is the health policy-making body of the Chief of Defence. Each service – Army, Navy, Air Force and Carabinieri – has its own medical service that depends on the respective commands.
Italian Defense General Staff General Inspectorate of the Military Health Via di Santo Stefano Rotondo 00184 Rome ITALY
The main assets of the Italian Military Medical Service consist of the facilities for: • Health care and Preventive Medicine (some 300 Unit clinics deployed at Regiment/Battalion level to provide basis level of care). • Diagnosis, hospitalization and treatment (3 Armed Forces military hospitals). • Forensic Medicine (13 Military Departments of Forensic Medicine). • Selection (13 centres/ bodies for medical selec - tion of personnel). • Training (own Armed Forces have training Centres). • Research (Research Centre of the Army, Department of Aviation Medicine). • Medical Airworthiness of personnel (2 Air Force Forensic Medicine Institutes). Regional Medical Facilities Role 1 medical facilities in each military unit (Battalion/ Regiment level, Airports, Naval Bases, ships, etc…) Military Hospitals Roma (Army) Role 4 Milan (Army) Taranto (Navy) Institutes 2 Air Force Institutes for Flight Fitness Evaluation.
2019
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