Five nurses from the
Gaza Strip and 11 from the West Bank (Samaria) were in Israel this week
for four days of medical training conducted by Israeli physicians through a
collaboration between Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHR) and the Medical
Simulation Center (MSR) at Sheba Medical Center.
Although collaboration
between MSR and PHR began close to a decade ago, this is the first-time
training has been provided to nurses. In the past, physicians and ambulance
drivers have been trained.
Participants learned
new practices in the field of primary medicine, with a focus on the skills
these nurses might need in emergency situations. For example, they learned best
and innovative practices for stopping bleeding, intubation and chest drains.
There was also one day focused on advanced cardiovascular life support.
They trained daily
from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. In the evenings, they enjoyed short social activities
with their Israeli counterparts and then slept at the Maccabiah Hotel in Ramat
Gan. A spokesperson for Sheba told the Post that four out of five of the Gazans
had never been outside of the Strip.
The travelers said
they were taken aback by Israel’s beauty and even more so by the size of Sheba
and the sophisticated training available through MSR.
Israel’s center for
medical simulation was founded in 2001 to lead a nationwide effort to introduce
new standards and innovative approaches to health care training and
patient-safety education for the benefit of the people of Israel. A press
release on the center describes a 2,400-square-meter facility designed as a
virtual hospital that encompasses the whole spectrum of medical simulation
modalities from role-playing actors for communication and clinical skills'
training to cutting-edge, computer-driven, full-body mannequins that enable
team training for challenging/high risk clinical conditions. Hopefully soon,
more trainees from the Gaza strip will attend further courses should the
security situation remain calm.
Unfortunately due to
Hamas spending most donar money on arms and battlefield expenses, Gazas main
hospital in Gaza city has many empty shelves and are void of vital medications
including chemotherpy medications.
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