Trauma Healers by American Public Television (APT)Call Number: online resource
Publication Date: 2021
Through interviews with world-renowned experts, international orthopedic surgeons, and trauma survivors in low resource countries, TRAUMA HEALERS focuses on the devastating impact of road traffic accidents and other traumatic injuries. The World Health Organization's 2018 Global Status on Road Safety reveals that an estimated 1.35 million people are killed in traffic accidents every year, and 20 to 50 million more are injured, requiring surgical care to avoid life-long disability. Road traffic accidents are rising rapidly in developing countries, where adequate surgical care is often inaccessible, especially to people living in poverty, who cannot afford medical treatment. Fortunately, thousands of surgeons around the world have made a passionate commitment to working with the poor.TRAUMA HEALERS also focuses on the pioneering work of Lewis G. Zirkle, M.D., who founded a non-profit organization called SIGN Fracture Care International, which manufactures orthopedic implants and offers free hands-on training to international surgeons. During the past 20 years, SIGN surgeons have successfully treated nearly 250,000 patients. Throughout the program, viewers will experience the heartbreak and meet the heroes with on-location stories recorded in Uganda, Myanmar, Bangladesh and The Philippines.