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Ô°ÇøÒùÂÒ Nursing alumna Meg Omand continues her interest in international health with her recent sojourn to Kampala Uganda to help out with the Uganda EMS Pilot Project. Phase 1 of this project took place in February and involved teaching 40 non-physician health-care workers the basics of assessment and treatment at the Emergency Medical Responder (EMR) level.

While completing her BN program at Ô°ÇøÒùÂÒ, Omand took advantage of the student exchange program to the University of Calgary-Qatar in 2016.  Since graduating, she has been working in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia at their hospital where her work covers the lifespan in ER, acute medicine and long-term care. She was also recently hired as an EMR with BC Ambulance.

Check out Omand’s adventures in Uganda on Facebook at .