Expedition Medicine Sierra Leone: Sam Milne and Blair Dunlop at TEDxBathUniversity

Expedition Medicine Sierra Leone is a group of medical students that undertook a medically orientated expedition from July to October 2013. Their expedition investigated protection against infectious pandemics and in order to do this, they drove over 4,500 miles to Sierra Leone visiting, supplying and supporting remote hospitals en route. By volunteering their medics' knowledge and skills this group of students has enhanced the healthcare in under-resourced hospitals. Their talk will investigate the use of protective medical equipment and how it can help in preventing the spread of disease.

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