The Returning English Wounded

Well, this is wretched: the British only have one military hospital left, and it's being sold next year. Most of their injuried soldiers are placed in civilian hospitals in mixed and open wards, where they can be treated to encounters like this:

A paratrooper wounded in Afghanistan was threatened by a Muslim visitor to the British hospital where he is recovering.

Seriously wounded soldiers have complained that they are worried about their safety after being left on wards that are open to the public at Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham.

On one occasion a member of the Parachute Regiment, still dressed in his combat uniform after being evacuated from Afghanistan, was accosted by a Muslim over the British involvement in the country.
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"You have been killing my Muslim brothers in Afghanistan," the man said during a tirade.

Because the soldier was badly injured and could not defend himself, he was very worried for his safety, sources told The Daily Telegraph.

It's unfathomable to me how a government could be so ungrateful as to fail to provide their wounded soldiers with something as basic as their own hospital.
Where do they even train their own medical staff?

(Via FR.)