Polskie Centrum Pomocy
Medyczny Zespół Ratunkowy PCPM od kilku dni wspiera personel medyczny w leczeniu chorych na COVID-19 w szpitalu w Entebbe w Ugandzie. To tylko część misji i pomocy jaką jedyny w Polsce zespół niesie pod egidą Światowej Organizacji Zdrowia.
Poland Emergency Medical Team PCPM launches a new expert mission under the aegis of World Health Organization. For four weeks, rescuers and doctors will provide support for the health service in Uganda, which today is incomparably unequally struggling against COVID-19 and its contagious varieties.
Medyczny Zespół Ratunkowy PCPM rozpoczyna nową misję ekspercką pod egidą Światowej Organizacji Zdrowia. Przez cztery tygodnie ratownicy i lekarze będą wspierać służbę zdrowia w Ugandzie, która dziś toczy nierówną walkę z COVID-19 i jej zaraźliwymi wariantami.
Od tygodni liczba zakażeń COVID-19 w Afryce gwałtownie wzrasta. Wariant Delta, do 60% bardziej zaraźliwy niż warianty dotychczasowe, rozprzestrzenia się na kolejne kraje kontynentu, napędzając trzecią, najbardziej śmiercionośną dla Afrykanów, falę. W jednym tylko tygodniu kończącym się 4 lipca w całej Afryce zarejestrowano ponad 250 tysięcy nowych przypadków, co uczyniło go „najgorszym tygodniem pandemii w historii".
Working in hospitals without running water and with limited access to medicine and oxygen supply, shortage of medical staff, building trust among medical professionals and mindfulness of cultural differences- these are some of the many challenges that the Poland Emergency Medical Team PCPM had during the pandemic of the COVID-19.
Polish Emergency Medical Team PCPM is a WHO acredited emergency medical team comprised of over one hundred doctors, nurses, and other medical experts who provide rapid deployment to medical emergencies across the world. In 2020, we had one greatest challenge in front of us, which is combating COVID-19 pandemics.
The Corona-virus outbreak has been continuing to spread. By the beginning of May, the number of infected people worldwide surpassed 160 mln infections, and the death toll continues to rise. While traditional models of disease outbreaks largely focus on infection rates, the HERoS (Health Emergency Response In Interconnected Systems) project introduces new methods to integrate behaviour from the bottom up, and integrated in macro-level models to coordinate the response world-wide.
Out of nearly a hundred applications from medics of various specialties, nearly forty qualified for the field recruitment stage of the Poland Emergency Medical Team PCPM and tested their skills in simulated but difficult actions. For many hours the recruits tested their skills, resistance to stress, speed of decision-making, creative thinking and teamwork skills, but most of all they verified their medical knowledge in simulated rescue operations.