South Sudan: Vietnam deploys medics on UN mission.

(Bentiu) The first contingent of a total of 67 Vietnamese doctors have arrived in South Sudan in which to take over a UN field hospital currently operated by the British.    This follows a memorandum signed last week between the Head of Vietnam’s Permanent Delegation to the United Nations, Dang Dinh Quy, and U.N. Under Secretary General for Field Support, Atul Khare, at the U.N. headquarters in New York Vietnam has agreeed to send 63 military doctors and medical equipment to South Sudan.

The advance party of 30 Vietnamese military doctors departed the country on Sunday courtesy of an Australian Airforce C17 Transport jet from Tan Son Nhat International Airport ,Ho Chi Minh City

This is the first time Vietnam has provided military doctors as part of U.N. peacekeeping forces.