Carefully prepare logistics and ensure health for the forces participating in A80

The working delegation inspected logistics preparations at the National Military Training Center 4. (Photo: VNA)

Logistical plans are deployed systematically, scientifically and meticulously, from food, accommodation, daily activities to transporting troops and logistical supplies, ensuring military medicine, to ensure the health and physical strength of soldiers in conditions of high intensity and prolonged training.

Propaganda for soldiers to prevent accidents and injuries due to training

Regarding military medical assurance, Colonel, Associate Professor, Doctor Le Van Dong, Deputy Director of the Military Medical Department (General Department of Logistics and Technology) said that through experience gained from the parade and marching activities at the 50th Anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification (April 30, 1975 - April 30, 2025) - abbreviated as mission A50, the Military Medical Department has requested units to pay attention to closely screening soldiers with a history of chronic diseases or surgery.

Accordingly, the health records of soldiers are managed at the Military Medical Department of the Ministry of National Defense and the military medical units, ensuring that for forces participating in parades and marches, health records are handed over when soldiers transfer units or end their duties.

From there, military medical units under the Ministry of National Defense have compiled the results of selection and health examination for the forces participating in A80 and sent a report to the Military Medical Department.

In preparation for the A80 mission, the units established and consolidated mobile emergency medical teams to ensure medical support for each parade and marching group. The Military Preventive Medicine Institute, preventive medicine teams, and preventive medicine departments of the units established epidemic prevention medical teams and food safety incident response medical teams. Hospitals established and consolidated mobile emergency medical teams, specialized teams, and reinforced response medical teams according to the plan of the Military Medical Department.

In addition, officers and staff of medical teams and groups are also selected to meet the requirements of capacity and experience. For medical teams serving the female sector, each team must have at least one female officer or staff member.

The hospital's mobile emergency medical teams are all specialists, including emergency resuscitation specialists with experience working in the emergency resuscitation department.

Also according to Colonel Le Van Dong, the Military Medical Department has reminded units to actively propagate and educate soldiers about self-care and health protection; about eating well and hygienically, with a balanced diet, adequate nutrition, and drinking enough water to ensure health in conditions of high intensity training and in hot outdoor weather.

In addition, the forces participating in the parade are also equipped with knowledge about disease prevention, personal hygiene, environmental hygiene; measures to prevent and control infectious diseases; early symptoms and first aid techniques for common diseases and injuries; especially preventing training-related injuries, especially musculoskeletal injuries such as muscle strains, sprains, torn ligaments, tendonitis; sunstroke, heatstroke...

To ensure good military medical care for A80 training, the Military Medical Department has requested agencies and units to regularly check, review, and supplement equipment, medicine, and consumables to ensure quality and quantity according to regulations; prepare emergency tents for heatstroke, sunstroke, and infirmaries to ensure the A80 training area.

The menu for soldiers is guaranteed not to be duplicated.

Along with ensuring military medical care, logistics units have actively innovated menus, focusing on improving the quality of dishes in a diverse direction, with flavors suitable to each region.

Food is carefully selected from reputable sources, ensuring high quality, freshness, and clear origin. Processing areas, canteens, and prefabricated kitchens are arranged reasonably in clusters, responding quickly, neatly, and ensuring nutritional standards and food hygiene and safety.

Major Cao Minh Giang, Quartermaster Assistant, Quartermaster Department, Logistics - Engineering Department, Special Forces Corps said that thoroughly grasping the spirit of serving the A80 mission is a central political task, each meal ration is calculated specifically, in detail, and nutritious enough for soldiers to enjoy their food, practice with peace of mind, and be ready to enter the general rehearsal and official ceremony in the best physical and mental state.

In particular, with each meal, dishes are renewed to be attractive, rich in nutrients, suitable for the season, and enhance essential nutrients such as protein, vitamins, and fiber.

Having participated in many long-term training sessions, Hoang Thi Kim Anh (Military Medical Officers) shared that she felt a comprehensive change in the quality of logistics during her participation in the A80 service training.

“The menu is adjusted daily, ensuring no repetition, with dishes from vegetables, soups to main dishes all harmonious and delicious. Shrimp fried with garlic butter and beef stir-fried with mushrooms are very popular with women because they have enough protein and are easy to digest,” Kim Anh excitedly said.

Not only focusing on food quality, the kitchens also strictly implement food hygiene and safety procedures, from receiving, preparing, cooking to dividing meals.

All food sources must be fresh every day, of clear origin, rice used for cooking must be ST25 of high standard, absolutely do not use frozen food past the specified date or drinks not on the prescribed list.

In addition to food issues, environmental sanitation, waste treatment, and water supply are implemented strictly and seriously. Waste in the soldiers' living quarters is collected and transported twice a day.

Units coordinate with specialized handling units to remove them from the barracks area. The training and living environment is always clean and tidy, ensuring the "3 clean" conditions - clean eating areas, clean sleeping areas, clean training areas.

Directly inspecting and directing the work of ensuring logistics to serve the A80 mission, Major General Huynh Tan Hung, Deputy Director of the General Department of Logistics and Technology, emphasized that the General Department clearly identified the A80 mission as a particularly important political mission.

Therefore, logistics work must be carried out with the highest sense of responsibility, carefully calculating each meal, training time, health, and living conditions so that soldiers can have the best physical and mental condition to enter the general rehearsal and official ceremony.

“Agencies and units must feed their troops scientifically, serve them wholeheartedly, and ensure absolute safety. Not only must the food be nutritious, it must also be delicious, suitable for taste and appropriate for the season and region,” Major General Huynh Tan Hung requested.

In the coming time, the kitchens will continue to innovate dishes, diversifying high-quality foods for meals. At the same time, soldiers will be given more orange juice, squeezed tangerine juice, cooling leaf water, effervescent vitamin C, electrolyte water... to rehydrate, increase resistance and prevent fatigue in conditions of prolonged hot training.

The logistics and technical forces of the units are always well-prepared, thoughtful, and meticulous down to the smallest detail to truly be a spiritual driving force and a solid rear, contributing to ensuring the health, will, and determination of the troops to excellently complete the A80 mission - a particularly important political mission of the entire army in 2025./.

According to VNA

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