Pakistan 2006

NYC Medics returned to Pakistan in February of ’06, this time dispatched to the other side of the earthquake, focusing on primary care at a small clinic in the Northwest Frontier Province by the border of Afghanistan. Instead of backpacks the teams filled jingle trucks with equipment, and two teams of physicians, medics and nurses treated scores of patients a day. The operation established a thriving care facility providing care to more than ten thousand patients, everything from resuscitating a cardiac arrest to delivering babies.