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Wed, 08/13/2014 - 14:16
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ANGEL EXPERTS TRAIN HOW TO SAVE LIVES

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ "The sound of groaning and moaning lazily perforate beyond the wooded back lot of the Central Armed Forces Hospital in Ulaanbaatar, as an interpreter encourages temporary accident victims to ham-up their performances during mass-casualty response training, as part of Pacific Angel 14-4". An article about this training for saving lives was published on the website of the US Embassy in Mongolia by Sgt. William Banton, a public affairs photojournalist at U.S Air Force. "The Mongolian Armed Forces soldiers turned actors are about to test the readiness of Mongolia civil-military physicians and nurses, rounding the corner in a scenario, which represents the culmination of a training event with U.S. Air Force medical subject matter experts. "We try to make these scenarios as real as possible for the students,” said Master Sgt. Victoria Grey, enlisted medical subject matter expert for mass-casualty response training during Pacific Angel 14-4. "When they do go out to treat these patients we have moulaged they know that they need to be treating the most injured first.” "The training is part of Operation Pacific Angel, which helps cultivate common bonds and fosters goodwill between the U.S., Mongolia and regional nations by conducting multilateral humanitarian assistance and civil military operations at locations like the CAFH. "The CAFH, which was founded in 1921, provides medical and health care services to all Mongolian Armed Forces, activity duty, retired personnel, veterans and their families. “Despite the cultural hurtles that we knew we’d expect, it’s funny how medicine is an international language,” said Major T.J. Bonjour, an emergency medicine physician assistant and medical subject matter expert instructor. "With patience, persistence and the help of Mongolian translators’ assistance, Air Force members worked seamlessly with surgeons, cardiologists and a wide variety of nurses and technicians to help teach organizational an communication skills. “This course mainly centered on mass-casualty management and emergency center preparedness,” Bonjour said. “Their system already has a robust [structure] in place and I think we facilitated furthering the progression of their system.” "The training will allow the CAFH to provide better medical services to those who need it, said Mongolian Armed Forces Major Battumur Batmunkh. The training will also allow the hospital to prepare other first responders for mass causality situations. “Pretty much for us communication was the key,” Grey said. “They are not all from the same unit so they had to come together as a team, communicate well and help each other out.” As the students eagerly run towards the mock tragedy the groaning and moaning begins to increase exponentially. The atmosphere is finally set to test the skills learned, which could one day save lives.

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