"كتيب الجيش الفارسي" [ظ‎‎٤‎١] (١٥٠/٨٧)

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CHAPTER XVIII.
Medical.
1 . The Medical (Service is under the directorship of
■a branch of the General Staff.
One stationary hospital is situated in Tehran. Each
lashkar has a proportion of medical officers attached
to it, and also one field hospital.
Each company and equivalent unit contains a medi
cal detachment.
Each battalion has one light horse-drawn wagon for
the carriage of wounded. Owing to shortage of stores
it has not been found possible to issue the full estab
lishment of these carts.
2 . The Medical Service, in common with all other
branches of the Persian army, suffers much from short
age of trained personnel and equipment. It is pro
bable that in the event of a large number of casual
ties, the medical service would be quite insufficient to
cope with them.
3. The distinguishing mark borne on flags denoting
Persian military hospitals is a “ Lion and Sun ” in
red on a white ground.
4. In the year 1923 a society known as the “ Shir-
o-Khurshid-i-Surkh ” (Red Lion and Sun) was started.
This society, which is an imitation of “ Red Cross ”
societies in European countries, is supported by
voluntary contributions. Its objects are to supply the
ti oops with extra medical comforts, and to register
civilian doctors who in time of war would be ■willing
to serve with the Persian regular forces.