Tag: Field Hospital

  • Nation & World

    In the cold and rain, a sprawling lesson on caring

    About 250 faculty, students, and volunteers descended on Massachusetts’ Harold Parker State Forest last weekend for a disaster simulation aimed to prepare students studying humanitarian disaster response for the real thing.

    5 minutes
    Participants learn to treat injuries in a humanitarian disaster simulation.
  • Nation & World

    Transfer ‘ensemble,’ Port-au-Prince

    Transporting patients from one location to another in post-quake Haiti can be a complicated task; often involving barriers of logistics, distance, and language. Sometimes the greatest challenge is a ticking clock.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Hospital rises in the grass

    Sandwiched between mountains and a large lake, a field hospital has sprung up amid the thorny trees and dried grass at Fond Parisien, near the border with the Dominican Republic. The site has become an oasis of medical care and hope in this still-reeling nation, where many thousands died and many more have been injured.

    5 minutes