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A Medical Student’s Volunteering Experience During the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War

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https://doi.org/10.5195/ijms.2021.1165

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War, Covid-19, Medical Student, Experience

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The date was the 27th of September 2020, when we heard that war started between Armenia on the western side of my country.3 It was a tremendous war with more than a hundred thousand military personnel attending on both sides.

I applied to several authorities; in the end, I was able to go to Salyan Central Hospital in Salyan (150km distance from the war zone) as a volunteer to help the personnel for medical care to wounded soldiers.  I saw different types of injured soldiers; they mostly came with extremity wounds, trunk wounds, and concussions due to explosions. I was mainly affected by the soldiers who had concussions. It was an exhausting period as Covid-19 was worsening the situation in hospitals, and no one knew when the war would end. No matter how unfavorable event was the war during the pandemic, at the very early stages of my life, I have learned how to work under time and emotional pressure. Volunteering in a hospital during the war was a strange experience and feeling that will last a lifetime on my memory.

 

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Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Azerbaijan. List of Servicemen who died in the patriotic war. Available from: https://mod.gov.az/en/news/list-of-servicemen-who-died-as-shehids-in-the-patriotic-war-34027.html Last update the 8th of December 2020. Cited the 8th of August 2021.

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Ibrahimli, A. (2021). A Medical Student’s Volunteering Experience During the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War. International Journal of Medical Students, 9(4). https://doi.org/10.5195/ijms.2021.1165

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