Without arguing this matter of my general reputation, accepting it at its current face value, let me add that I have indeed lived life in a very rough school and have seen more than the average man's share of inhumanity and cruelty, from the forecastle and the prison, the slum and the desert, the execution-chamber and the lazar-house, to the battlefield and the
military hospital. I have seen horrible deaths and mutilations.
Though the troops were ill-clad, exhausted, and had lost a third of their number in killed, wounded, sick, and stragglers; though a number of sick and wounded had been abandoned on the other side of the Danube with a letter in which Kutuzov entrusted them to the humanity of the enemy; and though the big hospitals and the houses in Krems converted into
military hospitals could no longer accommodate all the sick and wounded, yet the stand made at Krems and the victory over Mortier raised the spirits of the army considerably.
"The matron has friends in France," she answered, "who are connected with the
military hospitals. It was not difficult to get me the place, under those circumstances.
Again this would be impossible to achieve at a
military hospital or on a military-only ward.
Duterte's visit to the AFPMC was the second
military hospital he visited in two weeks.
Earlier Thursday, Prosecutor-General Talt Ibrahim Abdullah ordered to transfer Mubarak to the
military hospital and to move him back immediately after recovery.
On the occasion, Commander of the Royal Medical Services Major-General Professor Shaikh Khalid bin Ali Al Khalifa praised the advanced level reached by the
Military Hospital, hailing the efforts made by the medical team, led by the vascular specialist Lt.
Similarly, a delegation from the Syrian community in Saudi Arabia visited Tishreen
Military Hospital to show solidarity with the army personnel who were injured while carrying out their duty of protecting citizens and public and private properties.
But Mr Blair ruled out reopening
military hospitals, as demanded by some campaigners.
The Taliban account did not say whether it was a civilian or
military hospital. Britain denied its planes took part in any raid against Herat, and the Pentagon said it had no specific information about the purported incident.