Sentence examples for community medics from inspiring English sources

From Fremma's efforts to bring meditation and conflict resolution to the Nakivale Refugee Camps in Uganda, to the volunteers behind the People's Community Medics project based in Oakland, CA who teach communities how to tend to immediate medical needs on the streets.

Through their Oakland, CA-based organization, the People's Community Medics, Emily Zisette and her team are traveling to Seattle to conduct unique first responder workshops where they train residents how to treat gunshot wounds, seizures, and other common ailments.

As a result, task shifting was adopted as an innovative strategy to redistribute specialized primary health care (PHC) tasks that are usually administered by doctors and nurses to an active network of community-based medics, maternal health workers (MHWs), and community health workers (CHWs) (14, 15).

The high number of displaced people has also increased the pressure on hospitals in border communities, which medics say have been repeatedly targeted by Syrian government and Russian air strikes since the government offensive began.

Many come from work as military medics, emergency medical technicians or community volunteers.

Jenna, one of the community's on-site medics, feels similarly disillusioned with the finished product.

BPHWT medics are community health workers trained in primary care and basic surgical techniques but do not have formal medical education.

We identified the following eight types, which may not be exhaustive: ART aides, HIV medics, field officers, community ART and TB treatment supporters (CATTS), community AIDS support agents (CASAs), AIDS community workers (ACW), expert patients (network support agents) and TB tracers.

Children who were managed according to American College of Critical Care Medicine/Pediatric Advanced Life Support (ACCM-PALS) guideline[ 10, 11] that received up to 60 mls/kg of isotonic fluid resuscitation over the first hour by community physicians or para-medics show a nine-fold reduction in mortality compared to cases who were not managed in accordance with these recommendations [ 12].

Community health organizations often deployed medics to villages in close proximity to active fighting.

They were preoccupied by others' (medics, patients, or community members) opinions of their legitimacy and effectiveness as health providers.