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Pastimes : Ban Landmines! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (31)	1/8/2001 9:25:55 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 76

A key problem involved in treatment of mine victims is that the majority of the world's uncleared landmines lie in developing countries, where health services are ill-equipped to deal with the injuries concerned. While military personnel usually receive medical assistance relatively quickly, civilians are more likely to die from their injuries especially if they are alone at the time of the accident. Civilians may wait for hours, sometimes days before receiving adequate medical treatment. The medical consequences are seen in an unnecessary loss of limbs and life. Inadequate first aid and inexpertly applied tourniquets, often lead to higher amputation of limbs than normally necessary. Surgery of mine victims is demanding, time consuming, and places high demand on blood bank services should they exist. But surgery is one of the most expensive services for a health care system, which has led to its neglect in many developing countries in the interest of providing more basic health care.