2023-05-12 10:27:25
Kiev, May 12 (EFE).- Ukraine needs combat medics for its counteroffensive, and a group of national and foreign volunteers with medical knowledge makes up for this army deficit by training hundreds of specialists in extracting and treating the wounded once morest the clock.
“I have designed my own adapted course, of five days and between 60 and 80 hours,” says David Brymer, a combat medic with experience in the armies of the United States and Israel who collaborates with the school and has already taught how to save lives on the front lines of more than 1,400 soldiers and civilians since the beginning of the war.
Using his own training and what he has seen in the eastern Ukrainian theater of operations, Brymer has found a formula to “methodically equip people in a limited time with the skills they need” to give them a chance to survive. to the soldiers who fall wounded in combat.
“We have to be especially proactive in the early steps of treatment,” Brymer explains of the importance of involving his students, whose ability to identify and begin treating injuries often decides whether those who have been hit by shrapnel or burned survive or No.
MOBILIZED DOCTORS
This private, non-profit initiative arose at the beginning of the Russian invasion, when Ukrainian doctor and professor of medicine Alex Khyzhniak identified, while teaching new soldiers tactical medicine, that the army did not have the capacity to instruct all the volunteer combatants who they needed it.
“When the war started, I asked myself what I might do for my country and I decided to teach people to do what I know how to do, which is to teach,” Khyzhniak, founder and director of the Kiev International Center for Tactical Medicine at the Brymer and the other volunteers work.
“We have brought together a great community of surgeons, neurosurgeons, anesthetists, pediatricians,” says this specialist in pathophysiology of the dozens of Ukrainian volunteers who teach combat medicine alongside their foreign classmates at the school.
In addition to offering courses at different levels for combatants or personnel from strategic sectors systematically attacked during this war, such as the railway or energy sectors, the center constantly trains new instructors to multiply their impact.
“We don’t turn anyone away, civilian or military, but we give priority to those who go to the front,” Brymer says before one of his practical classes.
FROM ENGINEERING TO MEDICINE
One of these instructors is Nataliya Dudka, a trained engineer and professional in the construction sector who, when the war began, rescued her vocation to study medicine to specialize, with a course in the US, in the treatment of war wounded and help their army. .
“I get a lot of calls from my students on the front lines asking for advice or just saying they get missions and save lives; We are always in contact and I can see that it works and that we are going in the right direction”, Dudka told Efe.
Among the students is Alex Mulkevich, a Ukrainian girl who works in a non-governmental organization that deals with elderly care.
Both Dudka and Mulkevich prefer to contribute to the defense of their country as civilians, which allows them to decide how they help with more flexibility than if they enlisted in the army.
“I want to go to the front and with this kind of knowledge I can be much more useful,” he says following attending an evacuation and emergency treatment practice in the open field next to the building that houses the school.
Marcel Gascon
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