Ganulv,

You asked two questions:
I don’t know the first thing about that conflict, can you recommend a reading or viewing for beginners?
If you search SWC on Dhofar (the province) and Oman there are many posts, but for a reading list - not on medicine - there is this now merged thread:


It would be interesting to see whether the initial medical aid was meant to be—or at least to be perceived as—the first step towards a long term medical infrastructure (as opposed to medics periodically showing up to pull teeth and hand out quinine).
My recollection is that medicine appears as a phrase, maybe a sentence and not in detail. It is a long time since I've done any reading on the campaign, so perhaps a Google search might find new sources.