Medicinski arhiv
Volume 51, Issue 1-2 Suppl 1, 1997, Pages 21-22

Personal experience in the organization of mass admission of traumatized refugees [Nasa iskustva u organizaciji masovnog prihvata traumatiziranih prognanih lica.] (Article)

Pavlović D.* , Bijedić S.
  • a Dom zdravlja, Tuzla
  • b Dom zdravlja, Tuzla

Abstract

Here is showed experience and importance of Emergency Medical Service during mass reception of traumatised displaced persons from Srebrenica in July 1995. During organisation of reception a good willingness and experience of this service with repard a to fast action, examination and selection of more than 15,000 displaced persons. In short time, whole coming persons were examined; medicine treated and in other way cared. There were arranged, 234 doctor teams, 22 stomatologist teams, 42 laboratory teams, 42 hygiene-epidemiologist teams and 18 teams for vaccination of children. In the various pathology of coming displaced persons there were dominated: respiratory disease case and uncared skin infections in children, chronical cardiovascular disease and malnutrition in adults. For successful realisation of this complex tasks, like the organising of reception and medical care of huge number of traumatised displaced persons, it is needed to have well organised, qualified and technical equipped Emergency medical Service.

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Index Keywords

hospital admission refugee Wounds and Injuries human injury Refugees war Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia-Herzegovina Humans Article organization and management Emergency Medical Services adult emergency health service Patient Admission Emergency Service, Hospital Triage Child

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ISSN: 0350199X
Cited by: 1
Original Language: Serbian