CMAT Field Hospital: A mother who sustained a crush injury to her right hand complicated by gangrene requiring amputation. Her injury was sustained when she pulled one child to safety as her home collapsed.
May 4, 2006 – Article by CMAT Volunteer Ron McMillan, MD published in the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine – May 2006, Vol. 8 No. 3.
South Asian Earthquake: An Emergency Physician’s Perspective (HTML)
South Asian Earthquake: An Emergency Physician’s Perspective (PDF)
Kashmiri children sit in an outdoor classroom in the rubble of their former school. When weather is bad, the children don’t attend school.
April 4, 2006: Three new earthquake-resistant elementary schools will be built over the next three months in the devastated region of Azad Kashmir. The Canadian Medical Assistance Teams (CMAT) will contract local builders to facilitate the project, funded through private and public donations.
The CMAT Spinal Rehab team from Trillium hospital poses with colleagues from Holy Family Hospital in Rawalpindi.
March 9, 2006: The Trillium Hospital (Mississauga) neuro/rehab and physio teams released an initial report of their activities in Pakistan from January to February this week. An estimated 1,500 quake victims lie in hospitals in Rawalpindi and Islamabad with Spinal Cord Injuries (SCI). Before the CMAT Rehab team arrived, these paitents were lying in beds without active physio or rehab interventions. CMAT Rehab teams worked with the NGO Subh-E-Nau at the Holy Family Hospital in Rawalpindi.
January 20, 2006: Trillium Hospital Neuro-Rehab/OT and Physio teams (Islamabad)
Sarah coaching local P.T., Rajeesh on stretching techniques for B.A. (75 y/o from Muzaffarabad with incomplete spinal cord injury).
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