EMS workers from the fumigation team titled, “Unidad de Vectores” prepare mosquito fogging machines for an upcoming day trip this Saturday to fumigate in the department of Usulután and after-wards in the Department of San Miguel. The institution assures that this will help lower cases of Dengue by eradicating mosquitoes and subsequent larvae. While in Usulután CDS hopes to fumigate up to two thousand five hundred homes.
A 15 year old patient only identified as Guillermo was rescued from a cliff in front of a soccer field in the neighborhood Colonia Villa Hermosa in San Luis Mariona, north of San Salvador. The patient presented with numerous lacerations to his face caused by a knife. Lead brigade leader, Edgar Jhony Ramos and other EMTs applied dressings and assured integrity of his airway. Comandos then used climbing gear and a rescue litter to recover the patient and transported to Zacamil Hospital. Other EMTs present were Carlos Vásquez, Xiomara Vásquez, Elver Flores y Ronald Castro.
Agents from the National Civilian Police on scene commented that the youth could be involved with gangs. Violence has increased to unsurmountable levels among students and other adolescents in El Salvador over the last decade.
At the start of February, Dr. Margarita Orellana of Comandos de Salvamento was participating in a health brigade when the unit received an emergency call in Berlin Usulután. An assault with a Machete had taken place. The doctors, medical director Rosa Mendea, and EMTs offered first aid to patients in order to assure their airways, control breathing and monitor their vitals. They monitored level of consciousness during transport.
Dra. Orellana explains:
We arrived to Berlin and found the patients, both in a state of being inebriated. They had gotten into an altercation together with a machete. One presented with a fractured skull, multiple lacerations on his arms. We applied a pressure dressing but due to the injury being very acute, we transported to Santiago de Maria Hospital. Of course we brought the other patient with us since he presented very inebriated. It was difficult to acquire the other patients collaboration since he did not want to travel in the same ambulance as his supposed “amigo”. Eventually both arrived safe at the hospital.
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