Medical Assistant Honored For Work In Afghanistan
April 22, 2009
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The Royal Navy awarded a certificate of recognition to Natalie Chinniah for her work volunteering to teach trauma management to a group of Afghan nurses at a hospital in Helmand Province in Afghanistan, according to an article in the Nursing Times.
According to the article, the goal of the two-month training course is to help the hospital put together and operate its own ambulance service. All 12 of her students graduated from the course in March.
Chinniah has served as a medical assistant to the Joint Forces Medical Group since September, 2008. She is currently on her second tour of duty in Afghanistan, where she is regularly attached to a foot or vehicle patrol in the province.
"I have been able to put my medical training to good use," Chinniah told the news source. "On one hand I have used it to treat people who have been injured in battle and on the other hand I have used it to help train the local nurses in trauma management."
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