European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 18, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday october 18, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 9 clinic s open door policy a Boon to nearby villagers by j. King Cruger Mediterranean Bureau silo i Turkey a forty nine . Military medical personnel got More experience than they had reckoned on when they set up their a Hospital in a boxy near turkeys Border with Iraq. The 39th tac air group Hospital a Complete air transportable Field Hospital normally stored at in Ciurlik a Turkey deployed to silo i in late april. Its main Mission was to treat several thousand Allied troops of the combined battalion task Force supporting operation provide Comfort. But medical staffers also ended up treating kurdish refugees and turks and travelled into Northern Iraq on mercy missions. Hospital personnel doctors nurses dentists and technicians deployed from one army Post and 19 air Force installations in Europe to staff the facility. French dutch and italian doctors aided the americans. Together since the Start of provide Comfort ii in a lot of times we did no to know who shot whom. It shooting is kind of an endemic disease around Here. People showed up with gunshot wounds and we took care of  a or. It. Col David Mbrown july they treated 3,200 outpatients and 146 inpatients attended to 370 dental patients and performed 46 surgical procedures including is emergency operations according to air Force maj. Allan Davis 40, the hospitals administrator. Moreover Hospital staffers immunized 1,000 coalition troops plus 4,500 kurdish refugees residing in a Camp just Down the Road from the Hospital said Davis an Oswego n.y., resident. The kurd were immunized against mumps measles and typhoid Davis said. A we had an open door policy for taking care of patients a said or. It. Col David m. Brown an air Force surgeon assigned along with Davis to the Wiesbaden air Force regional medical Center in Germany. The Hospital also treated turkish and kurdish civilians before closing Down when the silo i support base shut at the end of the first week in october. It brought much needed medical help to the area As the nearest referral Hospital in Turkey is at Diyarbakir a three 39.000 troops still in Gulf eight months after War Washington a amps almost eight months after the last shots were fired in the persian Gulf War the United states still has almost 39.000 military personnel and 1.5 million tons of equipment in the Region Pentagon spokesman Bob Hall said tuesday. Most of the service members a 18,690 a Are Navy personnel aboard ships in the Eastern Mediterranean red sea and persian Gulf Hall said. Also in the Region Are 10,968 soldiers 4,316 marines and 4,913 air Force members. Most of those personnel Are in saudi Arabia although 1,900 soldiers from the Germany based 3rd and 8th inf dive remain As a Security Force in Kuwait Hall said. A we will review the status of the . Defensive presence in Kuwait toward the end of the year a Hall said. The 1.5 million tons of equipment scheduled to be shipped Back to the United states from the Region include supplies wheeled and tracked vehicles ammunition and construction materials he said. Defense department officials continue to negotiate with a a several Middle East countries on the Issue of permanently storing military equipment in the Region for possible future contingencies Hall said. Hour drive from silo i. Coalition forces also brought Back a number of civilian gunshot victims from Northern Iraq. A everyone in Iraq carries a gun. One victim a child had a shot blown through him from front to Back. We treated him and he was Well enough to go Home within a week a said Brown a 40-year-old resident of Gainesville Texas. Gunshot victims turned up at the Hospital with sur-3rising regularity Brown said. A week before the hos vital closed five turkish truck Drivers All shot in the legs came in during the Middle of the night for treatment. A a lot of times we did no to know who shot whom. It shooting is kind of an endemic disease around Here. People showed up with gunshot wounds and we took care of them a Brown said. Hospital personnel often went into Northern Iraq to treat civilians. The silo i medical people acted As consultants to kurdish or iraqi doctors treated injured or ill villagers and operated in an iraqi Hospital. A the biggest problem the kurd have is that the fairly sophisticated medical infrastructure they once had is gone. A lot of their specialists people who could perform Haemodialysis chemotherapy etc., have disappeared a Brown said. Because much of the medical equipment in the iraqi hospitals was inoperable due to a Lack of spare parts and knowledgeable technicians the silo i medical teams brought repair technicians along with them to fix what they could. In Large hospitals in Northern Iraq the teams from silo i encountered a Host of patients suffering Eye orthopaedic and neurological disabilities caused by trauma Brown said. A there were lots of amputees and people who had been blinded and crippled from old ii snot bomb or torture injuries a Brown said. Maj. Roland Winter 34, an orthopaedic surgeon from Wiesbaden performed a number of operations during several visits to a Large Hospital in Dozhuk in Northern Iraq. A the staff there had excellent skill Levels. The Hospital mirrored the British medical system but it lacked Basic supplies a observed Winter an Auburn Calif., resident. The Hospital in which Winter operated is run by the iraqi government and Winters visits were made with the knowledge of iraqi officials. A we removed political barriers and practice Medicine a Winter Saia. Medical teams from the silo i Hospital treated 460 kurdish refugees in Northern Iraq. Capt. Elaine Dekker 31, a staff nurse from the Hospital at Raf Lakenheath England and capt. Frank Crosby 39, a physicians assistant from the base Hospital at Pitburg Germany brought their medical skills to two kurdish villages in Northern Iraq. In one Village not caught up in political intrigues Crosby treated 75 patients almost All women and Chil Ankara Turkey apr the sting of inflation and new attacks by kurdish rebels have coloured the Campaign for sundays parliamentary elections expected to end the eight year Rule of president Turgut Ozalis motherland party. But while Ozal faces diminished party support in parliament he was elected by lawmakers to a seven year term in 1989 and stands to remain in office. Ozal has sought to liberalize turkeys Economy in preparation for possible membership in the european Community. He also was a staunch supporter of the .-led allies opposing neighbouring Iraq in the persian Gulf War. With six parties contending opinion polls have Given the Lead to the Center right True path party led by Suleyman Demirel six time Premier who was deposed in 1971, and again in 1980, by the military. That would suggest Ozalis policies Are not Likely to change radically. But the polls also indicate no party will get an absolute majority which will 1 Jkelly Lead to a coalition government. If that occurs Ozal could lose some control since the presidency has Little executive Power. Ozal exerted Power through the Man he handpicked to succeed him in 1989 As prime minister Yildirim Akbulut. Ozal has been less successful at influencing cur is j. Eng Crugy army chief warrant officer 3 Gary Brosier examines turkish army pvt. Kayo Ozan. Dren for roundworm infestations and the effects of polio. A it was just the opposite in the political Village. There i treated nearly All warriors a said Crosby of san Antonio Texas. Dekker said it was Nice not to Sec any War injuries in the one Village. A the other Village had chronic orthopaedic problems that we could not help. Some of the injuries came from the Iran Iraq War while others came from the kurdish uprising in March a said Dekker a native of Napa Calif. Chief warrant officer 3 Gary Brosier 40, the sole army medical officer at the silo i facility spent his time at the Hospital working in the emergency room and on trauma teams. A i got to see a lot of trauma lots of gunshot and shrapnel wounds that i  ordinarily have seen a said Brosier a resident of Cincinnati and a physicians assistant from the Berlin brigade. Brosier said that getting to see troops at sick Call from the various Allied nations at silo i taught him one thing a fall human bodies work the  rent prime minister Mesut Yilmaz who replaced Akbulut in june. Yilmaz called the election a year ahead of schedule to shorten the time the opposition would have to capitalize on Price rises big budget deficits and falling exports. Ozal led motherland to Victory in 1983 and 1987 elections capturing a majority in parliament. The social democratic populist party led by Erdal Inonu is running second in the opinion polls followed closely by motherland. Also running Are the democratic Lett party led by former Premier a silent Ece Vit the islamic fundamentalist welfare party and the socialists a marxist party. Motherland a Campaign led by French Public relations specialists has focused on youth and a dynamism a in contrast with the Ages and a a traditionalism of its opponents. Yilmaz is 44, while Demirel is 67 Inonu is 65. Demirel and Inonu have promised Relief from inflation which is running at nearly 70 percent annually and a fight against deficits by cracking Down on tax evasion Ana corruption and limiting luxury imports. In the campaigns final Days the government appeared to be paying More attention to concern about the rising assertiveness of the country a 12 million kurd. Eroding Economy could Sway turks who vote this weekend