Community Appraisal and Motivation Programme (CAMP) is a national non-profit and non-governmental organization established and registered in May 2002, under the Societies Act of 1860 (Registration No. 192/5/2946). We work with some of the most underprivileged communities in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan; responding to emergencies, improving access to quality health and education, creating livelihood opportunities and working closely with communities and government departments to promote human rights, peace and security.(Read more about CAMP)
Primary Trauma Care (PTC), FATA
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There is a huge burden of trauma within FATA, arising primarily from road traffic accidents, gunshot wounds and landmines/unexploded ordnance. Obviously the burden is currently much greater given the conflict and floods ravaging the region. Due to a lack of suitably skilled health workers and the necessary equipment people are dying unnecessarily and being left with avoidable disability. In conjunction with IDEALS, a UK based NGO, and the FATA Health Directorate, CAMP addressed these issues with the following interventions:
- The Primary Trauma Care (PTC) Course is the World Health Organisation (WHO) approved trauma care training package for remote, resource-poor environments. Over the past four years CAMP has conducted a series of PTC Courses in Peshawar, Lahore and Karachi, with the establishment of a cadre of local instructors in each centre. In Peshawar a group of highly respected local instructors have established a Faculty (with representatives from each of the major teaching hospitals) dedicated to the teaching of PTC.
- With our continued support the Peshawar PTC Faculty has trained a cohort of 75 senior doctors from FATA hospitals over the past two years. Recently 17 of the most dedicated and skilled of these doctors were trained as instructors, to disseminate the PTC Course to the remaining hospital workforce in FATA.
- In addition all of the Agency Headquarter hospitals within FATA have been provided with the basic equipment necessary to provide life-saving trauma care for victims. By providing this equipment, those trained in PTC have been able to utilise (and thus consolidate) their new skills immediately.
Under the seasoned guidance and supervision of Dr. Andrew Ferguson, who is also CAMP’s Senior Technical Advisor, Health, we are about to expand this programme, providing equipment and training for health workers in the more remote facilities within FATA and addressing other aspects of emergency health care in the region
