SPAIN
Spain, Kingdom of
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Capital: .......................................... Madrid Area: .............................................. 504 987 km² Population: .................................... 46 218 000 Official Language: ........................... Spanish Armed Forces Personnel: ................. 135 500 Medical Officers: ............................. 1.050 Military Hospitals/Institutes: ........... 2/4 Missions: ........................................ multiple
Surgeon General José Maria Alonso de Vega Major General MC
Basic Task of the Military Medical Service Support, protect and maintain the health of the Spanish Armed Forces personnel.
Structure The INSPECCION GENERAL DE SANIDAD (General Inspection of Health) is the supreme authority in Spanish Military Medical Service. The Inspector General de Sanidad (Surgeon General) is under the authority of Undersecretary of Defence. A Military Medical Directorate in the Army, Navy and Air Force, with functional dependence of the Armed Forces Surgeon General. • Medical Directorate, with 2 Military Hospitals and 6 Military Clinics • Preventive Medicine Institute • Blood Centre • Aerospatial Military Medical Centre • Pharmaceutical Directorate with a Military Pharmaceutical Centre • Veterinary Directorate with a Military Veterinary Centre
Inspector General de Sanidad de la Defensa Hospital Central de la Defensa Gomez Ulla Glorieta del Ejército S/N Madrid 28047 SPAIN
Institutes • • • •
Aviation Medicine Centre, Madrid Diving Medicine, Cartagena Military Centre of Pharmacy Military Centre of Veterinary
Field Deployments • One Medical Brigade • One deployable Role 3 • Two Air MEDEVAC units
Current active deployment of the Military Medical Service: • • • • • • • •
Afghanistan: one Role 2 Lebanon: one Role 1 Atalanta, Indian Ocean: one Role 2 afloat Irak: one Role 1 Central African Republic: one Role 1 Djibouti: one Role 1 Dakar (Senegal) one Role 1 Libreville (Gabon): one Role 1
All hospitals are fully equipped with all means of diagnostic equipments. Additional Military Clinics in Ceuta, Melilla, Valencia, Cartagena, Ferrol, Cadiz 2019
Eu ro p ea n M i l i t a r y M ed i c a l S er vi ce s EMMS
