Save in chaos. Medicalians trained for war

Three zones, 1 goal: survive

The first area is an improvised first aid facility in the immediate danger zone. There's firepower, pyrotechnic materials, sound and limited visibility. Wooden beams mimic trenches, peculiar colored lighting and smoke generators increase chaos, and participants decision with front flashlights and proceeding protectors. Not without a code, military infirmary workers wrote on the basement wall of the corridor that “there is no soft game here”.

The most hard are not procedures, but stress and the request to cope without a full backroom, in Spartan conditions. All to reflect the real conditions as much as possible. – The squad enters with basic equipment. Depending on the scenario, they get medical equipment that soldiers, paramedics or firefighters have. They must find themselves in a dark, tight, smoky area with gunshots or grenade explosions. They light their way with flashlights to scope the injured. This is hard. They are amazed at the introduction, and there is no time to consider – they must act, for example, to establish tactical stasis, halt intense bleeding. They besides request to decide among themselves who is the leader and the commander, and who is treating, to make an first assessment, to safe and evacuate the injured for the danger zone, as described by Colonel Friday.

The second space is simply a makeshift "institution room" – something like a field medical point in a destroyed hospital, where there are besides many injured and equipment besides few. Here, basic tests are performed and the victim is prepared for further evacuation.

The 3rd area serves as an improvised treatment room. This is where doctors and nurses treat gunshot wounds and lacerations, neck, hemorrhaging.

Fantoms are not typical mannequins from the catalog. Instructors modify them themselves, creating amputations, burns, extended bleeding. After the “blood” from the trays, the hands long refuse to wash, and the speakers reproduce the charring, shallow or torn breath – sounds characteristic of the injured with circumstantial injuries. We can modify the practice scenarios at any time. A bombarded, collapsed building, a tight room, injured with an amputated limb, head wound or multiple organ injury, says a spokesperson for a military hospital. “The team’s operation can be observed on the monitor, thanks to the cameras installed, and after exercising to recreate the recording and discuss possible errors,” he adds.

The concept of rooms was preceded by talks with doctors from Ukraine, who know very well that hospitals in war – although protected by global law – are being attacked.

The classes take place erstwhile a week (they last about 7 hours), but their strength makes many come out exhausted and amazed by their own reactions. For now, the training is attended by a five-man team: a doctor coordinator and 4 nurses, including anesthesiological, surgical, epidemiological and operating block instrumentalist. 2 people have teacher privileges Field medicine. As of February, regular training for staff of the full hospital, in groups of 3 and six, will begin.

Investment in readiness

Basic equipment for the field of combat medicine (e.g. exercise mannequins, wound and injury dummy kits, emergency medical and training kits to learn to put on a tourniquet and to safe various types of cuts, gunshots, heads, etc.) 1 Military Clinical infirmary in Lublin purchased as part of funds from the government's "Civil Protection and Defence Programme for the years 2025–2026". The facility has besides received fresh mobile devices: a digital X-ray arm kind C camera, a Holm laser and an ultrasound camera that is already utilized in the hospital's current operations. In total, it gained over PLN 1.6 million. “We are peculiarly arrogant of the creation of a simulation area for the battlefield in front conditions”, Krzysztof Komorski stressed at the press briefing on 12 January.

In the first or second 4th of the year, classes in tactical medicine, preparation for mass events and defence against weapons of mass demolition are to include medics from another hospitals in Lublin and Podkarpackie Voivodeship, who joined the task "Military-friendly hospitals". 15 military medical safety facilities have already reported interest. Instructors are besides open to policemen, firefighters, associations or pro-defensive organizations.

Colonel Aleksander Michalski, Commandant of the 1st Military Clinical infirmary in Lublin, pointed out at a conference with the Lublin Voivodeship that thanks to the plant "the Medical Legion has besides late been established, it will be possible to train all those who applied to it". This is simply a fresh MON initiative, aimed at doctors, paramedics and nurses to rapidly mobilize and keep civilian medical specialists in readiness for immediate support of the Armed Forces of Poland and the wellness strategy in crisis situations.