Stronghold Ambulances in Burma - January 2024

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Stronghold Ambulances in Burma

January 2024

Patients transported: 78
Conflict-related injuries: 52 (77%)
Children: 5

January Patient highlights

injured soldier

This soldier suffered head and chest injuries. Stronghold ambulances carried him for multiple days from the frontline to the hospital.

Fractured jaw

This patient, hit in the face by shrapnel from a Burma Army mortar explosion, rode on the Stronghold boat ambulance to receive care at Rain Tree Clinic.

Lifesaving oxygen delivered

In serious emergencies, oxygen can make all the difference. This patient came with a chest injury due to a gunshot and received continuous oxygen on the way to the clinic.

mortar and landmine injuries

These are only a few of the many people who our ambulances transported this month:

• A 19-year-old woman who lost her leg to a landmine

• A pregnant woman injured in a mortar attack

• A man injured in the side by a mortar attack

• A man with major head trauma from a motorcycle accident

The medical care and aid we provide the Karen people in Burma is only possible because of our supporters.

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