The competent military authority may appeal to the charitable zeal of the inhabitants to collect and take care of, under his direction, the wounded or sick of armies, granting to those who respond to the appeal special protection and certain immunities.
CHAPTER II
Medical Units and Establishments
Article 6
Mobile medical units (that is to say, those which are intended to accompany armies into the field) and the fixed establishments of the medical service shall be respected and protected by the belligerents.
Article 7
The protection to which medical units and establishments are entitled ceases if they are made use of to commit acts harmful to the enemy.
Article 8
The following facts are not considered to be of a nature to deprive a medical unit or establishment of the protection guaranteed by Article 6:—