MEDICS from Merseyside are preparing to fly out to Afghanistan to save the lives of troops fighting the Taliban.
The Territorial Army 208 Field Hospital will take up its position at Camp Bastion in a tour which will last more than three months.
More than 50 staff from NHS trusts in Merseyside will be leaving their jobs, homes and families to work in the busiest trauma hospital in the world.
It treats servicemen from the front line who are evacuated there by helicopter with sickening injuries caused by gunfire and roadside bombs.
But Colonel Peter Jackson, the commanding officer, said his team will be more than equipped to cope.
He said: “We have highly skilled people and the most high-tech equipment, so we will be more than ready to deal with anything which comes our way.
"We have to be extremely professional when the casualties come in through the front door – you fight to save life and limb and eyesight.”
