Backpack Medics: A day in the life of a Medic
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Planet Care
801 Cedar Street
Suite 200
Berkeley, CA 94710
510-594-4027
info@planetcare.org
A mobile medical team traveling to bring medical care to remote refugees.The volunteer medics travel by foot and by boat to jungle encampments. They carry their supplies, food, clothing and medicines on a dangerous and risky journey.
Along the Thai-Burmese border, there are many refugees living in small encampments and villages in the jungles. The jungle is beautiful, but it is also very dangerous. A bite from a mosquito can leave you sick with malaria. A bite from a snake or an encounter with a soldier can mean death.
A mobile medical team in a rural village, with Planet Care's Dr. Ben Brown
in the center of the back row, wearing green.When the medics arrive
in a village, the people begin to bring the sick to them for treatment.
These small communities operate as extended families. Often the woman
bringing a sick child to the medic is not the child's mother, but a neighbor
or friend. Medics soon become an integral part of these communities.
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