MEdic Training:
partnership with frontline medical
In a new project, the Cleveland Maidan Association has partnered with Frontline Medical to create an emergency medic training program in collaboration with the Ukraine Military Medical Academy. The program aims to:
Qualify and supervise instructors who teach all combat medics in 20 dispersed facilities and 10 mobile medic instructional teams
Enable Ukrainian physicians to train Ukrainian medics using the rigorous TCCC-CMC program of instruction, to teach 94 skills
Equip 32 classrooms for training
Train ~27,000 medics in 12 months. Train new medics and retrain all 27,000 medics in 2025
The program will utilize 2.5 million dollars, and will be overseen by the Columbus Foundation and the Ukrainian Military Academy.
medic training is necessary to save lives and limbs
When Frontline Medical’s General Mark Arnold returned from a recent trip to Ukraine, he noticed that noticed that almost all arm and leg amputations are near the hip and shoulder areas – the location where soldiers are trained to apply tourniquets – “high and tight”.
This indicates that tourniquets were left on the casualty at the original location on the limb, and were not removed in time to avoid amputation.
Survivors of such limb casualties are everywhere in Ukraine, and it is enough motivation to continue fundraising and operationalizing the medic training program.
officials estimate that 70% of amputations in ukraine are avoidable, with increased medic training.
This groundbreaking program needs continual support in order to equip Ukrainian medics with the training and materials they need. Below is an estimate of the resources needed for the program:
Purchase and ship all first 18 educational equipment, training aids: $740,000
Purchase and ship 32 kits of portable ultrasound devices: $120,000
Purchase, repair, modify, and ship 4 used pickup trucks and trailers: $280,000
Purchase and ship any gaps in educational equipment: $50,000
Purchase and ship 14 educational equipment, training aids: $560,000
Purchase, repair, modify, and ship 4 used pickup trucks and trailers: $280,000
Purchase, repair, modify, and ship 4 used pickup trucks and trailers: $280,000
Purchase and ship replacement educational equipment: $140,000
Budget for sustainment: $300,000
Total: ~$2.5 million
(These estimates do not include the cost of administrative fees or volunteer travel expense, all of which will be funded by the individual.)
now is the time to act
With your help, this program can save lives and avoid amputation for our defenders in combat
Alternatively, checks can be made to “Frontline Medical Ukraine Fund” and sent to:
The Columbus Foundation
1234 East Broad Street
Columbus, Ohio, USA 43205