Dar es Salaam: What started as a calm and regular shift for Dr Iddauha Mohammed, a young surgeon in Same District hospital in Kilimanjaro Region, swiftly turned into a state of emergency, when a road traffic crash patient was rushed into the health care facility.
*Clement Tsai*, 43 years old, had just arrived in an ambulance having endured a motor cycle crash. Dr Iddauha who met and examined him saw that the patient was a polytrauma case and needed to be transferred to the zonal hospital, which is about 106 kilometres away with an ambulance. He immediately performed basic emergency care (BEC) including early management of bleeding, resuscitation, immobilization and administered critical medications.