For the third year consecutively, GlobalMedic has run a training for Mines Advisory Group in Somalia. This year’s training was extended beyond the previous 2 week cycle to 1 month of teaching in 2 separate locations, including Garowe and Galkayo. Rapid Response Team Paramedic Maite Browning trained 38 MAG personnel over the one month period, in GlobalMedic's Emergency Trauma Management Program. Included amongst the trainees were Explosive Ordinance Disposal teams.
The Emergency Trauma Management Program is designed to focus on injuries that would be expected as a result of some type of explosion, including bleeding control, airway management, spinal immobilization and pain management. Additional information is provided regarding basic field medicine (e.g. recognizing and treating dehydration) and area specific issues (scorpion stings, snakebite etc). Throughout the program basic assessment skills are reinforced and the candidates are exposed to the principles of triage in multi patient scenarios. The training they receive provides practical life saving skills to those who do some of the world’s most dangerous and needed job. The training was a success and all students progressed through the program with enthusiasm.
MAG (Mines Advisory Group) has been operating in the Puntland area since May 2008, clearing much of the area around Garowe and Galkayo of dangerous stockpiled and unexploded ordinance.
