By Helen Hu
Stars and Stripes
BAGHDAD — A plain building with barred windows and stacked-up chairs symbolizes the U.S. Army’s hopes for training Iraqi military health workers.
Steps away from one of the country’s busiest emergency rooms, the structure is being turned into a schoolhouse with laptop computers and high-tech dummies that breathe and bleed.
About 30 Iraqis have been trained in American-style emergency medicine under a program at Ibn Sina Hospital, which is run by the 28th Combat Support Hospital.
The program’s goal is to polish the trauma-related skills of doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other health workers so the Iraqis can resume control of Ibn Sina, a center formerly used for the care of Saddam Hussein’s family and Iraqi government officials, according to Maj. Murray Kramer, a coordinator with the Army Reserves’ 3rd Medical Command, which manages the program.
The students, all men, serve in the Iraqi army and are picked by the Ministry of Defense to participate in the $250,000 program, which spans 13 weeks but might be cut to eight.
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