Your support funds vital trauma management training for frontline healthcare workers in low-resource settings, delivered at zero cost to them.
We save lives globally by training front-line health workers in trauma management skills via accredited training courses. We empower those trained to own the training in their region by cascading the delivery of our teaching.
Our training courses are adapted to suit local requirements and resources. Our resources are available in multiple languages. We help to raise people out of poverty by preventing disabilities in low income and low resource areas. Our legacy is in the cascade of our training, lives saved and disabilities prevented.
Trauma remains the single largest unaddressed global healthcare issue.
Training is significantly underfunded. It is a pandemic that is forgotten and ignored, with millions of lives continuing to be lost.
Injury kills more people each year than HIV, Malaria, TB, Measles, Mumps and Covid-19 combined.
Despite this burden, the funding for trauma care represents less than 1% of total Development Assistance for Health.
By training local instructors and building sustainable educational networks, PTC creates long-term impact within healthcare systems and communities.
Over the years, via PTC, Life+Limb has:
could provide training materials for a healthcare worker
can train one person in primary trauma management
can train one new instructor
Injury and trauma are among the world’s leading causes of death and disability, claiming more than six million lives each year and leaving millions more with life-changing injuries. For more than 30 years, Life+Limb has delivered Primary Trauma Care (PTC) training to healthcare workers around the world.
Our courses equip doctors, nurses, paramedics and other frontline workers with practical skills to assess, stabilise and manage seriously injured patients using the resources available to them.
