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Medics in Sudan taught to treat gunshot wounds on smartphones

Medics in Sudan taught to treat gunshot wounds on smartphones

Hadeel, along with hundreds of other Sudanese healthcare workers, uses an international platform called Project ECHO to connect with medical experts worldwide and get quick, real-time advice on how to treat her patients, via a messaging app on her phone.  In Sudan, doctors are not taught trauma medicine, meaning many were left scrambling to deal with the sudden influx of injuries and diseases brought on by the civil war.  ECHO employs specialised consultants from around the world and connects them with those who need their expertise. The concept is simple, yet effective – move knowledge, not patients.  The non-profit was founded in New Mexico in 2003, by US-based doctor Dr Sanjeev Arora. At the time, Dr Arora was one of the few doctors in the state trained to treat complex hepatitis-C infections.  When one of his distant patients died of the disease – purely because she lived too far away to regularly visit his clinic in Albuquerque – he set up a programme to share his specialised training with other doctors remotely, using teleconferencing. Fast …

Many gunshot wounds among Gaza aid convoy injured, says hospital and UN

Many gunshot wounds among Gaza aid convoy injured, says hospital and UN

Dr Mohammed Salha, the acting director of Al-Awda Hospital, told The Associated Press that of the 176 injured people brought to the facility, 142 had gunshot wounds and the other 34 showed injuries from a stampede, suggesting heavy shooting by Israeli troops. He could not address the cause of death of those killed, because the bodies had been taken to government-run hospitals to be counted. Source link

Iowa school shooting leaves three Injured; suspected shooter dead | US | News

Iowa school shooting leaves three Injured; suspected shooter dead | US | News

Three people have been injured following a school shooting in Iowa, according to police. Dallas County Sheriff Adam Infante said the attack had taken place before classes got underway. The shooter is understood to have died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot, it was reported by NBC News. It may have been a student who was responsible. Mr Infante, in a news briefing, said: “Luckily, so there were very few students and faculty in the building, which I think contributed to a good outcome in that sense.” Two students and an administrator were among the injured, the Sheriff Infante said. The shooting took place at Perry High School at around 7.30am local time (1;30pm UK time) and officers arrived on the scene minutes later. Emergency vehicles were called to the scene and surrounded town’s middle school and high school building. Zander Shelley, 15, had been in a hallway when the shooting broke out and rushed to hide inside of a classroom but was grazed twice, according to his father, Kevin Shelley. Mr Shelley, who drives a …