What we do
Providing Primary Trauma Care training to medics and frontline responders in low resource settings across the world.
Empowering Front-Line Health Workers to Save Lives
At Life & Limb, our mission is clear: to save lives and prevent disabilities in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs) / Low Resource Areas.
Through our Primary Trauma Care (PTC) course, we teach front-line health workers to deliver emergency medical care with only basic equipment.
Although our impact often begins in capital cities, in the best hospitals with the most experienced doctors, our vision is that training reaches even the remotest areas and becomes locally sustainable. That's why we teach using minimal equipment/facilities, and foster ingenuity when finding solutions to local challenges.
Our mantra is: " Improvise ; Adapt : Overcome"
How It Works
Traditionally, we offer a comprehensive two-day Primary Trauma Care (PTC) training course, which is designed to equip healthcare professionals with a systematic approach for addressing the clinical needs of severely injured patients.
Students receive the PTC manual as a reference tool. Throughout the course, they engage in a variety of learning activities, including lectures, workshops, clinical skill stations, and realistic moulage scenarios. The educational content covers all the physiological and pathological aspects of trauma care, delivered in a systematic and interactive manner. The course culminates in a practical or examination scenario, ensuring thorough comprehension and application of the skills taught.
Training can also be delivered / received in a modular, hybrid (part digital and remote, part in person) or fully digital.
Successful students can then extend the course by another day. On the third day, a PTC instructor course is offered. Those aspiring to become instructors can learn interactive and modern techniques for teaching.
This structure is designed to rapidly equip local healthcare workers with the necessary skills to train others in fundamental PTC principles, thereby encouraging them to help their own community.
Hear from people on the ground
Local Cascading of Primary Trauma Care Training
While the initial training is often conducted by visiting instructors from abroad, we strongly encourage the local team to sustain and expand the training from there. To facilitate this, a local PTC committee is established in each country to coordinate future courses.
1996
Year PTC training started
~1,000,000
Health care workers trained
