Life Support Nepal April 2016
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Dai Rees, founder of the Maldivian Sihhath Initiative (MSI) and Life-Support Nepal (L-SN), created a simple yet profoundly unique project whereby UK trained Paramedics provide high level pre-hospital emergency life-support training and medical equipment donations to developing countries. Dai established our first two initiatives in the Maldives in 2013 and more recently Nepal in January 2014.
The Dai Rees Foundation has started running 6-monthly trips to Nepal, teaching Nepalese doctors and nurses emergency treatment techniques, something that is lacking in the country. It is very much a case of "simple things done well" that saves lives and sadly due to various reasons, the simple things are often overlooked.
My involvement is in the Life Support Nepal initiative. Having been to the country in 2008 and indeed treated and 80-something year old Japanese tourist for altitude sickness demonstrated the fragility of the Nepalese healthcare system. This will have been no doubt compunded further with the recent earthquakes. Alongside teaching hopsital staff current "best practice" medical techniques, I will use my experience in my former job as an urban search and rescue paramedic to pass on skills to hospital and ambulance staff in Nepal to hopefully save more lives in the event of another earth quake.
Basically, my aim is to raise as much money as possible to pay for my flights and hopefully pay for some of my accommodation whilst out there. I just don't have the funds available to pay for it all out of my own pocket, what with having a newborn on the way and having lived in a building site all summer.
I will be using annual leave to do this trip so any help you are able to offer, no matter how small, would be a massive help.
If I get the money together to go out there in April I intend to post some blog posts to let you all know how we're getting on!
Thank you in advance.
James
Ps- The Dai Rees Foundation is indeed a registered charity! 1163215
The Dai Rees Foundation has started running 6-monthly trips to Nepal, teaching Nepalese doctors and nurses emergency treatment techniques, something that is lacking in the country. It is very much a case of "simple things done well" that saves lives and sadly due to various reasons, the simple things are often overlooked.
My involvement is in the Life Support Nepal initiative. Having been to the country in 2008 and indeed treated and 80-something year old Japanese tourist for altitude sickness demonstrated the fragility of the Nepalese healthcare system. This will have been no doubt compunded further with the recent earthquakes. Alongside teaching hopsital staff current "best practice" medical techniques, I will use my experience in my former job as an urban search and rescue paramedic to pass on skills to hospital and ambulance staff in Nepal to hopefully save more lives in the event of another earth quake.
Basically, my aim is to raise as much money as possible to pay for my flights and hopefully pay for some of my accommodation whilst out there. I just don't have the funds available to pay for it all out of my own pocket, what with having a newborn on the way and having lived in a building site all summer.
I will be using annual leave to do this trip so any help you are able to offer, no matter how small, would be a massive help.
If I get the money together to go out there in April I intend to post some blog posts to let you all know how we're getting on!
Thank you in advance.
James
Ps- The Dai Rees Foundation is indeed a registered charity! 1163215
Organizer
James Buck
Organizer
