The U.S. Army on Thursday donated to Pakistan its last “MASH” field hospital made famous by a television show about fictional doctors and nurses who found laughs as they treated casualties of the Korean War.
For the past few months, U.S. medics have used the 84-bed medical facility to care for victims of the Oct. 8 earthquake that killed about 80,000 people in northwestern Pakistan and Kashmir.
The Army is phasing out MASH for more flexible combat support hospitals that can be moved closer to the front line of a battle.
Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals were made famous by the movie and television show featuring a bunch of oddball surgeons who worked under difficult circumstances to save the lives of incoming patients. Not much has changed - army surgeons still perform heroic work under difficult circumstances, but the military has been updating its medical care provision so that emergency care can be provided even closer to the front lines.
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