Stubob
11-04-2007, 08:55 PM
FORWARD OPERATING BASE HOPE — In an area where clinics are scarce and a trip to the hospital is too far, residents in the New Baghdad District of eastern Baghdad were helped when the Iraqi National Police provided security and joined Soldiers from Company B, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry, attached to 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, providing medical care Oct. 29.
After they were seen by a doctor, residents were allowed to choose from clothing, soccer balls and other items for their family as they left with more than 300 of them seeing a doctor.
Capt. Cindi J. Schuler, the physician’s assistant for Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd IBCT, said more patients were able to be seen during this operation due to the increase in the number of medics working with each doctor.
Schuler, a native of Houston, treated the women and some children, and said the people were anxious to see a doctor.
1st Lt. Jamison E. Gaddy, the battalion physician assistant for 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry, said the only medical attention the locals receive is through nurses offering medical care from their homes, and even that isn’t on a constant basis and lacks follow-up care. However, one patient Gaddy attended said the people are happy to receive help and wanted to help secure the area so they stopped two locals from planting improvised explosive devices in the area.
Gaddy, a native of Camden, Del., treated men and older boys, and he said the most common ailments he saw were battle-related injuries. Many patients had burns or shrapnel wounds from explosions.
“There were more combat wounds here than at the other ones,” he said of past medical operations.
Many patients were afflicted with ailments unable to be treated through a medical mission, but that was only part of the challenge. Schuler said there isn’t a continuing medical education program.
“Some of the ways we operate, we take healing time and cosmetics into mind,” he said. “But, they are antiquated in their knowledge so they don’t think about scars.”
Numerous patients coming to receive aid had large scars on their bodies from operations such as kidney surgeries and Cesarean sections. Schuler said 2IBCT bought medical books to be handed out to the local clinics to enable doctors to gain more knowledge and catch up to what is going on in the medical community.
The Ministry of Health is trying to do continuous education programs, Schuler said, so the primary focus of the medical operations is to give health care to the local populace.
Gaddy said some members of the Ministry of Health came to receive free medical care. Many people who came had major surgeries in their past and Gaddy said they were searching for more answers concerning their condition.
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After they were seen by a doctor, residents were allowed to choose from clothing, soccer balls and other items for their family as they left with more than 300 of them seeing a doctor.
Capt. Cindi J. Schuler, the physician’s assistant for Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd IBCT, said more patients were able to be seen during this operation due to the increase in the number of medics working with each doctor.
Schuler, a native of Houston, treated the women and some children, and said the people were anxious to see a doctor.
1st Lt. Jamison E. Gaddy, the battalion physician assistant for 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry, said the only medical attention the locals receive is through nurses offering medical care from their homes, and even that isn’t on a constant basis and lacks follow-up care. However, one patient Gaddy attended said the people are happy to receive help and wanted to help secure the area so they stopped two locals from planting improvised explosive devices in the area.
Gaddy, a native of Camden, Del., treated men and older boys, and he said the most common ailments he saw were battle-related injuries. Many patients had burns or shrapnel wounds from explosions.
“There were more combat wounds here than at the other ones,” he said of past medical operations.
Many patients were afflicted with ailments unable to be treated through a medical mission, but that was only part of the challenge. Schuler said there isn’t a continuing medical education program.
“Some of the ways we operate, we take healing time and cosmetics into mind,” he said. “But, they are antiquated in their knowledge so they don’t think about scars.”
Numerous patients coming to receive aid had large scars on their bodies from operations such as kidney surgeries and Cesarean sections. Schuler said 2IBCT bought medical books to be handed out to the local clinics to enable doctors to gain more knowledge and catch up to what is going on in the medical community.
The Ministry of Health is trying to do continuous education programs, Schuler said, so the primary focus of the medical operations is to give health care to the local populace.
Gaddy said some members of the Ministry of Health came to receive free medical care. Many people who came had major surgeries in their past and Gaddy said they were searching for more answers concerning their condition.
Here is the link for the rest of the story -
http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15036&Item