Category Archives: Community Support

Large Public Events, Parades, National Holidays, Civil Unrest, Soccer Games, Concerts, Jail Riots, etc. Presence at political events.

Mobile Beach Clinic: Majahual

Mission Completed. This is the Comando team that worked at Majahual Beach in the Dept of La Libertad during Holy Week vacations. The Popotlan Base of Comandos, together with Dr. Orellana, good work team!

Foto 1: 6yo missing child, evaluated by Dr. Orellana. Treatment included liquid Acetominofen and a bandage over a small injury on his right arm.

Foto 2: 23 yo female, alegedly ebriated, presenting with multiple small cuts on left hand is attended to by Dr. Orellana along with Popotlan base EMS members.

Foto 3: This patient presents with a near drowning experience at Majahual beach. He is evaluated by Dr. Orellana and given psychosocial support.

Forest Fire on Cerro Pelón

Comando Bomberos
CDS battling the blaze.

Volunteers of CDS worked at putting out a forest fire that burned 41 acres of vegetation on the Cerro Pelón in the hills around the cities of Berlín y Alegría in the Dept of Usulután. The report that the fire started due to an alleged family argument. It was controlled although Comandos warns of the possibility of more fires since it is the dry season. Foto: CDS

The Fight Against Dengue Fever

Fumigando en Soyapango
Un Comando combatiendo contra los zancudos de Soyapango.

EMS crews from CDS in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Munincipal Mayors office of Soyapango, fumigated 990 homes in the neighborhood of Colonia San José II. The fumigation campaign continues this Tuesday in Berlin, Usulutan. Fumigation crews asks for permission from citizens to enter their homes in order to eradicate mosquitos and subsequent larvae that carry the dengue virus.

Fotos: CDS

Fumigation Against Dengue

Fumigacion Feb 2010

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.