Japan asked to send Medics to Afghanistan

TOKYO, 21st February 2011:

The U.N. security mission in Afghanistan has asked Japan to treat injured people under its envisioned plan to dispatch Self-Defense Forces medical officers to the Central Asian country to provide human resources training, Japanese government sources said Sunday.

The International Security Assistance Force, led by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, has not specified who it wants the Japanese medics to treat, but the possibility that it could include soldiers injured in battle cannot be denied, the sources said.

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