In a bid to save civilians in one of the longest-running conflicts in West Africa, training is underway to prepare the next generation of Nigerian war surgeons. Conflict has reigned in this part of the world for more than a decade, pitting several countries of West Africa's Lake Chad Basin against groups affiliated with Islamic State or Boko Haram.
In a bid to save civilians in one of the longest-running conflicts in West Africa , training is underway to prepare the next generation of Nigeria n war surgeons .These are the final words Husseini Jibrin remembers hearing before he was shot in both legs. He had been out collecting firewood with friends near his home in northeast Nigeria .
"Arriving at the hospital, I was immediately attended to, and treatment provided to remove the bullets from my legs," Husseini says.Rest and regular meals have speeded Husseini's recovery, as has the presence of his mother, who had helped him make the long journey. All this in the continent's largest economy, country, and democracy by population. And as global memory of the 'Chibok girls' capture fades, this is a place where conflict has been largely overlooked by the world.Clara is the head nurse working with the International Committee of the Red Cross in a ward for weapon-wounded patients at the State Specialist Hospital of Maiduguri.
Sighting medical staff with Red Cross badges over their scrubs is common in this ward of the hospital. But it won't always be this way. Hundreds of nurses have received training in the ward since 2015 and, from this year, a cohort of 16 surgeons and anaesthetists, too. Training alongside the ICRC in the weapon-wounded ward, she had been so quick to pick up this particular surgical skill that colleagues would book skin graft procedures and call her to carry them out.
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