Operation Desert Storm: Army Medical Supply Issues. GAO/NSIAD-93-206
Washington, DC: GAO, 1993. quarto, 15, wraps, notes, table, appendices, some waviness to entire document The GAO reviewed the adequacy of medical supply inventories at Army hospitals deployed during the Persian Gulf conflict. The objectives of the review "were to determine whether (1) Army hospitals encountered medical supply shortages in preparing for Operation Desert Storm and, if so, why and (2) the industrial base was able to supply requested items on time and, if not, whether hospitals experienced shortages as a result." GAO went on to "describe how the Army plans to meet wartime requirements for medical supplies during future contingencies." GAO reported, among itsresults, that "All 10 of the Army hospitals we reviewed ... reported shortages of some medical supplies during the build up for the ground offensive for Operation Desert Storm." GAO found that "The initial shortages of medical supplies arose because hospitals were shipped to the Persian Gulf without their full complement of medical supplies." Condition: very good.
Keywords: Desert Storm, Gulf War, U.S. Army, Military Medicine, Persian Gulf, U.S. Congress, GAO/NSIAD-93-206, Surgeon General, MASH units
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