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 Guardsmen exchange medical techniques with Congolese counterparts By Staff Sgt. Kassidy Snyder, Illinois National Guard
 KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo - About  40 U.S. service members exchanged medical techniques with their Congolese  counterparts at the Command and Staff College here as part of MEDFLAG 10. “We are showing them how we approach patient care, giving  them pointers and seeing what we can do to help improve and fine tune their  skills,” said Sgt. Stuart Hammer, a combat medic with the North Dakota National  Guard's 814th Army Support Medical Company, Detachment 1. U.S. service members are exchanging medical techniques  with the Armed Forces of Democratic Republic of Congo Immediate Response Unit  and medics, who are the Congolese military’s first responders to disasters. “We taught classes on malaria, tuberculosis, infectious  diseases, parasites, and hypertension,” all classes related to Africa, said  Capt. Itofe-Engulu Desire, a 16-year veteran doctor with the FARDC. Classes instructed by U.S. service members included arriving  to a scene, assessing, treating and then prepping the patients for transport.  The 814th brought training aids to include a U.S. Army issued medic bag and  moulage, which is mock injuries for a realistic impression of injured patients. Private 2nd Class Ndalaga-Sango Augustino, a nurse with  the FARDC UMIR said the U.S. medics have taught them procedures for evacuation  on the battlefield, which was very beneficial and at the same time they taught  different techniques for bandaging patients, which was beneficial to the U.S. “We’ve shared a lot of good ideas and have gotten some  techniques from them that I never would have thought of such as different  patient carries and bandaging of patients,” said Spc. Ricky Smith, a combat  medic with Detachment 1. All classes are leading up to a mass casualty exercise  that will take place Sept. 16, where the FARDC UMIR will demonstrate how they  respond in the event of a disaster. The UMIR’s Company 3 responded to the oil tanker truck  that overturned in July and burst into flames killing at least 230 and injuring  more than 200 in the eastern Congo. The UMIR would like to show their country  the skills they have and with better equipment and trained soldiers they will  be able to better treat the local population in the event of a disaster, said  Smith. “In the end, we hope they can gain anything that makes  them more adequate at saving lives,” said 1st. Lt. Coty Sicble, a medical  administrator with the 814th based in Bismarck.
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