Medical-Nins

Base of Operations: Hidden Village
Classification: Specialized Ninja Squad
Member Appearances: Tsunade, Shizune, Unnamed members can be see in the Third Chuunin Exam preliminary and main matches
See also: Hyuuga Hinata, Tsunade, Shizune

These specialized ninja are responsible for the health and well being of ninja injured in battle. Specially trained medical ninja such as Inuzuka Hana can also help the skilled animals which fight for the villages also.

After Hyuuga Hinata's match against Hyuuga Neji in the Chuunin Exam, she was attended to by Medical-Nins. Tsunade is highly skilled in the medical arts and looked over the care and surgery of several Leaf ninjas after they were severely injured in battle. In the past Tsunade has pushed for Medical-nins to be placed on each mission, to reduce the amount of fatalities in battle. Once she became Hokage she made moves to begin this process.