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the outbreak of hostilities on the subject of the corresponding ranks of the medical personnel,including that of societies mentioned in Article 26 of the GWS. 229In all questions arising out of their duties, the senior medical officer, and chaplains, shallhave direct access to the military and medical authorities of the camp, who shall grant them thefacilities they may require for correspondence relating to these questions. 2307.9.5.8 Agreements on Possible Relief of Retained Personnel. During hostilities,the parties to the conflict shall agree concerning the possible relief of retained personnel andshall settle the procedure to be followed. 231 This provision arose from limited practice in WorldWar II where retained personnel were repatriated and replaced by medical personnel from theirhome country. 2327.9.6 No Relief of Obligations of the Detaining Power. None of the provisions of Article28 of the GWS or Article 33 of the GPW shall relieve the Detaining Power of its obligations withregard to POWs from the medical or spiritual point of view. 233 In other words, the fact that theDetaining Power permits and enables retained personnel to care for POWs does not relieve theDetaining Power of its own responsibilities to care for POWs.7.10 MILITARY MEDICAL UNITS AND FACILITIESFixed establishments and mobile medical units of the Medical Service (i.e., militarymedical units and facilities) may in no circumstances be attacked, but shall at all times be229 GPW art. 33 (“For this purpose, Parties to the conflict shall agree at the outbreak of hostilities on the subject ofthe corresponding ranks of the medical personnel, including that of societies mentioned in Article 26 of the GenevaConvention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field of August12, 1949.”); GWS art. 28 (“For this purpose, from the outbreak of hostilities, the Parties to the conflict shall agreeregarding the corresponding seniority of the ranks of their medical personnel, including those of the societiesdesignated in Article 26.”).230 GWS art. 28 (“In all questions arising out of their duties, this medical officer, and the chaplains, shall have directaccess to the military and medical authorities of the camp who shall grant them the facilities they may require forcorrespondence relating to these questions.”); GPW art. 33 (“This senior medical officer, as well as chaplains, shallhave the right to deal with the competent authorities of the camp on all questions relating to their duties. Suchauthorities shall afford them all necessary facilities for correspondence relating to these questions.”).231 GPW art. 33 (“During hostilities, the Parties to the conflict shall agree concerning the possible relief of retainedpersonnel and shall settle the procedure to be followed.”); GWS art. 28 (“During hostilities the Parties to the conflictshall make arrangements for relieving where possible retained personnel, and shall settle the procedure of suchrelief.”).232 GWS COMMENTARY 257 (“During the last World War certain belligerents planned to relieve doctors retained inenemy camps, by personnel from the home country. On being replaced the doctors in question were to berepatriated. A beginning was made in the case of some Yugoslav doctors and a larger number of French doctorsretained in Germany.”).233 GPW art. 33 (“None of the preceding provisions shall relieve the Detaining Power of its obligations with regardto prisoners of war from the medical or spiritual point of view.”); GWS art. 28 (“None of the preceding provisionsshall reIieve the Detaining Power of the obligations imposed upon it with regard to the medical and spiritual welfareof the prisoners of war.”).444