UKISAR Nurse - Supporting the Turkey and Syria Earthquake Rescue Mission with Deb Swann

In this episode Deb Swann talks to Eoin Walker about her recent deployment to Hatay, Turkey, near the border with Syria in response to the recent devastating earthquake with the UKISAR team. Deb is an Advanced Clinical Practitioner and a member of the World Extreme Medicine faculty. Deb has been a part of the UKISAR team for ten years and is the only nurse on their rescue team. In this podcast she reflects on her experience of her most physically and emotionally challenging deployment to date, and her thoughts around the team she worked within, the patients she treated and the communities they helped.

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