MEDICAL INSURANCE AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE. Each Party shall take the necessary measures to insure against death, illness and injury, its personnel who might participate in Joint Response Operations, Joint Exercises and Joint Training Courses. The Lead State shall endeavour to offer the best possible initial medical care and services to any person from another Party who is injured or taken ill during his/her participation in Joint Response Operations. The Lead State shall facilitate the repatriation of assisting personnel who are injured or taken ill during Joint Response Operations. The costs of hospitalization and medical assistance rendered within the Lead State to injured or ill personnel of the assisting Party shall be borne by the Lead State. The Lead State might decide to claim the reimbursement of all such costs from the party responsible for the pollution incident, its insurer or an international system for compensation of pollution damages, as appropriate.