ACTING MINISTER OF DEFENSE REQUESTS MEDICAL EVACUATION

UNCLAS SAN SALVADOR 002862

SIPDIS

STATE PASS WHA//CEN DESK OFFICER PAUL DEGLER AND PM/ISO

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV MARR CA
SUBJECT: ACTING MINISTER OF DEFENSE REQUESTS MEDICAL EVACUATION
AND TREATMENT OF SALVADORAN MILITARY OFFICER AT U.S. MILITARY
TREATMENT FACILITY



1. On 19 Oct, Salvadoran Vice Minister of Defense, General Abrego,
the acting Minister of Defense, requested U.S. military
support in transporting a critically injured Salvadoran Air Force
officer, Colonel Juan Hector Reyes, to a U.S. military medical
facility as soon as possible. Colonel Reyes was injured in a
Salvadoran Air Force helicopter crash on 12 Sep and is currently
hospitalized in the Salvadoran military hospital. The attending
physician characterizes the injuries as life threatening and
provided the following diagnosis: multiple traumas,second and third
degree burns on 20 percent of the body surface, renal failure and
sepsis throughout his body.


2. I strongly recommend U.S. government concurrence with this request

Barclay