OfeliaDisaster response teaches you that preparation saves lives. From hurricanes to wildfires, every deployment reinforces the need for teamwork, quick thinking, and compassion. #DisasterMedicine #RedCross #MilitaryDoctor
Matt Hodgkinson"Communicable diseases are increasing alarmingly, according to surveillance data shared by the World Health Organization. There is bloody diarrhoea, respiratory infections, jaundice, hepatitis A and meningitis.
A shortage of antibiotics is driving deaths from post-operative infections among the wounded. The chronically ill, unable to access care and medication are dying often unrecorded as victims of the war."