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B. C. filmmaker works to bring Afghan hospital drama to TV
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The scripts for Combat Hospital are certainly gripping -- a trauma team of doctors from NATO countries using all their skills to save the lives of horribly wounded Afghan children.
Whether the show ever becomes a TV series is still uncertain, but Jinder Oujla-Chalmers, the driving force behind Combat Hospital, can make a believer out of any hard-core cynic.
Oujla-Chalmers, a Vancouver filmmaker, has spent the past two weeks shadowing doctors and nurses at the Role 3 hospital here. The Canadian military gave her unprecedented access. She could go everywhere and interview everyone -- all off the record.
Her goal was to get the details right, then put a fictional spin on what she learned to create an hour-long drama series.
Oujla-Chalmers began calling the Department of National Defence, which led her to soldiers and officers who had served here and were willing to share their stories.
"Then I decided this is the place to put it. No one has ever done anything on a multinational level on television, where you have a mix of people working toward a common goal."
And it's a show with a message. "We really want you to see the good work our troops and military doctors and nurses are doing, and how they are helping the Afghan population."
Oujla-Chalmers knew she had to get to Kandahar to see the hospital itself.
"Every person I talked to said I have to come here to see what it's really like. There's no way you can write about this without seeing it yourself."
There was no way to anticipate what she would experience at the hospital.
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The scripts for Combat Hospital are certainly gripping -- a trauma team of doctors from NATO countries using all their skills to save the lives of horribly wounded Afghan children.
Whether the show ever becomes a TV series is still uncertain, but Jinder Oujla-Chalmers, the driving force behind Combat Hospital, can make a believer out of any hard-core cynic.
Oujla-Chalmers, a Vancouver filmmaker, has spent the past two weeks shadowing doctors and nurses at the Role 3 hospital here. The Canadian military gave her unprecedented access. She could go everywhere and interview everyone -- all off the record.
Her goal was to get the details right, then put a fictional spin on what she learned to create an hour-long drama series.
Oujla-Chalmers began calling the Department of National Defence, which led her to soldiers and officers who had served here and were willing to share their stories.
"Then I decided this is the place to put it. No one has ever done anything on a multinational level on television, where you have a mix of people working toward a common goal."
And it's a show with a message. "We really want you to see the good work our troops and military doctors and nurses are doing, and how they are helping the Afghan population."
Oujla-Chalmers knew she had to get to Kandahar to see the hospital itself.
"Every person I talked to said I have to come here to see what it's really like. There's no way you can write about this without seeing it yourself."
There was no way to anticipate what she would experience at the hospital.
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