Medical support for remote operations
Every operation's medical support needs are unique. We'll listen to your requirements and work with you to create the right support network.
Having a wilderness specialist doctor available to give your workforce advice directly in the field can help to:
- avoid the need for unneccessary costly, risky and time consuming evacuations
- avoid the need to use poorly-resourced, unknown or untested local medical services
- fulfil your duty of care to your employees
- get your workforce back into the field more quickly following illness or injury, while ensuring that only those who are fit return
What kind of medical advice can you give us?
Medical advice broadly falls into one of two categories:
1. Urgent medical advice for sudden illness or trauma
- support for your medical staff or first aiders in the field
- advice regarding immediate treatment and use of drugs
- advice regarding need and required timescale for evacuation
- advice regarding destination for evacuation
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2. GP-type medical advice for non-urgent problems
- advice on treating common problems such as travellers' diarrhoea, skin infections or rashes, bites and stings, ear infections, sore throats etc.
- authorisation to use medications held within the individual worker's drug pack
- advice as to when a visit to a local doctor is required
- double-checking of local doctors' advice and suitability of prescribed drugs
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We can provide either or both of these services for one day or indefinitely. Please contact us to discuss your requirements.
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