OF visits Ukraine to assist in the medical war effort

On the 28th April 2024 Ryan O’Leary (K95-01) headed to Ukraine for 5 weeks at the request of the World Health Organisation following a plea from the Ukrainian Ministry of Health to help them establish European Trauma Course – a Europe-wide method for managing patients who have suffered major trauma.

He spent 4 weeks teaching ETC repeatedly, in order to identify Ukrainian doctors who could act as instructors. He ended up with 94 Ukrainians trained in ETC, and 12 Ukrainian full instructors, with several others well on their way to obtaining full instructor status. He will be returning at a later date to teach again and help embed ETC in the Ukrainian health system.

He says “I have never met such a patriotic group of people – this was a truly humbling and moving experience.”