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Koronapandemien can occasionally give everyone a desire to preferably be far out to sea. But the virus creates also challenges there, and it can have fatal consequences.
Recently encountered an acute situation in the Mediterranean, and Radio Medico – the emergency room at sea – was ringd up. Normally would they have evacuated the patient by helicopter.
due to The fact that several countries neither have the capacity in the hospital or want to accept patients who may have infection, have they faced a new problems.
– Normally, we would have evacuated this patient to Spain or France, but it was simply out of the question. We had to try as best we could to carry out the treatment on board, says Keith Wolf, director with Radio Medico.
The time went well, and they had helped the crew on board to give the right treatment. Themselves sjukdommen Covid-19 is also a big concern for many sailors, and, according to Radio Medico is now over half of their naudtelefonar about the virus.
– It is very difficult for us to answer if anyone has Covid-19 or not, for there is no test equipment on order, ” says Wolf.
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Photo: Elias Håvarstein / NRK Nyutvikla app to help
No, Norwegian center for medicine and dykkemedisin (NSMDM) developed an app to help mariners all over the world. It should be able to provide information adapted to the unique daily life on board ships.
– A know that access to medical help is something completely different when one is out on the Pacific ocean than when one is at home in Norway, it gives a completely other turmoil, says Jon Magnus Haga, former sailor and current leader of the NSMDM.
According to the Haga gives the pandemic a number of special challenges to the sailors, as for instance:
How to practice heimekarantene on a tanker? What with social distancing in a less own? How should one implement mannskapsbytte? What about the checkup when the nearest countries have innreiseforbod?
Therefore, attempts Haga and his colleagues to ease some of the everyday life of sailors. He pointed out that the community is completely dependent on the services that seafarers deliver. And that heimekontor delete is not an option for them.
– They need at work in all sorts of crises and the effects of the weather that we should have smitteutstyr on sjukehusa and for that you and I will have food in the fridge, ” says Haga.
INFO AND FORMS: This app is now developed to help sailors with koronaproblematikk. He is funded by the Norwegian Gard AS, a major player within the realm of marine insurance.
Photo: Elias Håvarstein / NRK “Out of sight, out of mind”
Odd Rune Malterud has been an engineer at sea in a årrekkje. He is fagsjef in det norske maskinistforbund (DMNF). He believes Radio Medico their work is vital, and we are pleased that an app can provide fast and accurate information to mariners.
The men who are on board have basically not this information, he says,
Then DMNF had a meeting with their tillitsvalde, there was only one reiarlag who had introduced the system with regard to the infection and health. According to Malterud can often sailors will be forgotten, because their work is so little visible in the community.
– In all crises have the sailors been a lifeline to the outside world, so they are incredibly important, but they are often forgotten, ” says Malterud.
FORMER SAILOR: like many others Who are working to improve the rights of seafarers, has Odd Rune Malterud worked as a machinist in a årrekkje.
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