The French army will have helped 12 countries of the Caribbean and Latin America, with the mobilization of numerous military means to support the populations of the Caribbean islands: amphibious helicopter carrier PHA Dixmude, BSAOM Dumont d'Urville, CASA transport planes of the Armed Forces in Guyana or the A400M.
More than 100 tonnes of survival, protective and medical equipment were dispatched, in coordination with regional organizations, CARICOM: Caribbean Community, CDEMA, IMPACS and aid organizations such as the World Food Program, the PIRAC - French Red Cross and the French Development Agency.
An exceptional health context
An extraordinary year due to the Covid-19 epidemic to which has been added that of dengue. As of March, the health risk forced the army to adapt its operating methods: redeployment of the 33rd RIMa on 3 different sites so as to limit the risk of contagion while maintaining the training programs or even the implementation place ship unloading protocols in compliance with health rules of social distancing.
The Dixmude arrived in the French West Indies with nearly 140 tons of equipment and disinfection specialists from the 2nd Dragon Regiment and army health service professionals.
The army and in particular the RSMA-M came to lend a hand to the Prefecture and to health organizations on French territory, whose hospitals were thus able to accommodate Covid-19 patients from the Caribbean zone: transport masks, distribution of hydroalcoholic gel, reorganization of resuscitation rooms in order to increase their capacity.
France at the heart of international cooperation
The BSAOM Dumont d'Urville carried out a mission in Guatemala and Hondura, countries hard hit by hurricanes ETA and IOTA. Under the leadership of the American army, the Dumont d'Urville delivered 35 tons of humanitarian cargo from CDCS. and PIRAC, loaded in Guadeloupe, and then transported 21 tonnes of food from the World Food Program to a landlocked coastal area of Honduras.
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