Trauma Care Foundation news

An 32 year old fisherman lost his two limbs on his daily fishing trip near his hometown in Vinh Linh District, Quang Tri Province. The unlucky man will forever loose his left arm and his left leg because he need and extra income for his family. Sadly, the extra income ...

Tromsoe Mine Victim Resource Center invites for a 2 day workshop on trauma registries. The workshop will consist of three parts Trauma registries: why and how Severity scoring Registry analysis Find the full program.

An accident had killed a minority 38-year-old man, a breadwinner of eight-member family, on the spot at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, February 12, 2010. The explosion occurred in Mai Lanh Village, Mo O Commune, Dakrong District, the western part of Quang Tri Province, along the former wartime DMZ. The mournful ...

The explosion at 2:00 PM in Sunday afternoon on February 7, 2010 wounded 04 minority men, who are closely related to each others, while they were weeding and cultivating coffee trees. The accident occurred in Tram Village, Huong Tan Commune of Huong Hoa District, where in October 2008, another explosion ...

TMC has just published their annual report for 2008. TMC Annual Report 2008

Prosthetics and Orthotics (P&O) Mobile Outreach Program to expand into Dakrong District, Quang Tri Province. A community-based rehabilitation training – The trainer instructing the young amputee the proper way of using new above-knee artificial leg which was produced and delivered by the P&O Mobile Outreach Team. In cooperation with the ...

While working with two other local men on their ferry sucking sand in Ben Hai River, Ly Thong, 35 year-old man, was seriously injured by an ordnance explosion right at the time he approached to cool the machine with water. Gio Linh District, Quang Tri Province – About 14:30 of ...

A 42-year-old married man, the father of two children, has suffered major injuries from a piece of explosive ordnance which detonated as the man was attempting to cut it apart and sell it for scrap metal. The man, who was trying to dismantle the device in Hai Lang District, Quang ...

On July 20, 2009, one more UXO accident happened to a 37-year-old man while he was searching for the war waste metal, resulting in serious open fracture on his right leg, fragments pinning in the body including eyes and his arm is beaten to a pulp. Dr. Nhuan fixing the ...

ICRC surgical programmes for the victims of war have been developed over many years based on the principle of the "appropriate" response for a given situation; in many contexts this involves making the best of limited resources in an austere environment. The ICRC approach is now published in a book, and might be ...