0031-0330 irl.qxd 2.3.2009 14:20 Page 147 ANNEX I MODEL AGREEMENT CONCERNING DIRECT REPATRIATION AND ACCOMMODATION IN NEUTRAL COUNTRIES OF WOUNDED AND SICK PRISONERS OF WAR (see Article 110) I. PRINCIPLES FOR DIRECT REPATRIATION AND ACCOMMODATION IN NEUTRAL COUNTRIES A. DIRECT REPATRIATION The following shall be repatriated direct: 1) All prisoners of war suffering from the following disabilities as the result of trauma: loss of limb, paralysis, articular or other disabilities, when this disability is at least the loss of a hand or a foot, or the equivalent of the loss of a hand or a foot. Without prejudice to a more generous interpretation, the following shall be considered as equivalent to the loss of a hand or a foot: a) Loss of a hand or of all the fingers, or of the thumb and forefinger of one hand; loss of a foot, or of all the toes and metatarsals of one foot. b) Ankylosis, loss of osseous tissue, cicatricial contracture preventing the functioning of one of the large articulations or of all the digital joints of one hand. c) Pseudarthrosis of the long bones. d) Deformities due to fracture or other injury which seriously interfere with function and weight-bearing power. 2) All wounded prisoners of war whose condition has become chronic, to the extent that prognosis appears to exclude recovery–in spite of treatment– within one year from the date of the injury, as, for example, in case of: a) Projectile in the heart, even if the Mixed Medical Commission should fail, at the time of their examination, to detect any serious disorders. b) Metallic splinter in the brain or the lungs, even if the Mixed Medical Commission cannot, at the time of examination, detect any local or general reaction. c) Osteomyelitis, when recovery cannot be foreseen in the course of the year following the injury, and which seems likely to result in ankylosis of a joint, or other impairments equivalent to the loss of a hand or a foot. d) Perforating and suppurating injury to the large joints. e) Injury to the skull, with loss or shifting of bony tissue. f) Injury or burning of the face with loss of tissue and functional lesions.