Mobilizing Mobile Medical Units for Hurricane Relief

Mobile medical emergency units in France-part II.

On ramasse un blesse (We pick up the injured) On transporte un agonisant (We carry the moribund) On hospitalise un mourant. (We hospitalise the dying). Professor M Arnaud Doctors worldwide are becoming increasingly aware of the need for transporting some patients under medical supervision and optimum conditions by using mobile medical or paramedical units. With proper treatment and resuscitativ...

Rural Medical Relief

Unwanted Medical Relief

By S. D. S. GREVAL LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, late I.M.S. Scrolof/ist. to the Government of India, School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta The following is a typical case. After a deed of violence and a domestic tragedy the victim and family are much more concerned about the revenge than the relief. Precious hours which if availed of in seeking medical relief can save the life of the victim are spent in...

Medical Education and Rural Medical Relief

Tracking Mobile Units for Dependable Message Delivery

As computing components get smaller and people become accustomed to having computational power at their disposal at any time, mobile computing is developing as an important research area. One of the fundamental problems in mobility is maintaining connectivity through message passing as the user moves through the network. An approach to this is to have a single home node constantly track the cur...