Team from remote Bhutan gets emergency medical training in Sleepy Hollow

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http://www.lohud.com/article/20090501/NEWS02/905010346/1018

Imagine living in a place where there's no emergency medical system.

It's where suffering a heart attack or a car accident often means someone calls the hospital directly and a first responder with no more medical training than a taxi driver is dispatched to pick you up.

Imagine living in a place where there's no emergency medical system.

It's where suffering a heart attack or a car accident often means someone calls the hospital directly and a first responder with no more medical training than a taxi driver is dispatched to pick you up.

Very interesting to see this! Great to see the global outreach!

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Its amazing how much change a little bit of work can effect in these systems. The Bronx Medical director for the FDNY, several NYC doctors and FDNY Paramedics have made many trips to India on their own time and often on their own dime to assist in the organization of some type of EMS system there. They come back with stories of hospitals using donkey carts and people getting to the hospital on the back of a stranger.