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The Golbasi (Turkey) experience
Following two earthquakes (magnitudes: 7.8, 7.5) having occurred in Turkey on 6 February 2023 (Fig. 1), the French authorities decided via the European Civil Protection Mechanism (EUCP) to propose application of module EMT-2 "ESCRIM" (FRENCH National Directorate for Civil Protection Members), which had previously led to deployment following earthquakes in Mexico (1985), Armenia (1988), Iran (1990), Turkey (1992), Algeria (2003) and Haiti (2010). On 10 February, a reconnaissance and evaluation...
Training of french visceral and digestive surgeons for patient treatment in crisis situations
The terrorist acts that afflicted France in 2015 and 2016 highlighted a sense of unpreparedness among surgeons in our specialty [6]. In France, up until 2019 only 120 career military surgeons and 60 reservists had received the complete training in wartime surgery known as CACHIRMEX [7], and a hard-to-determine number of general surgeons had acquired (occasionally considerable) on-the-field experience in humanitarian organizations during different international crises, allowing them to be...
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