Soldiers Help Heal 3-year-old Iraqi Boy With Second Degree Burns

CAMP TAJI — Multi-National Division–Baghdad Soldiers provided healthcare to a badly burned Iraqi boy in northern Baghdad May 9, in a continuing effort to provide medical support to the Iraqi people.

Elements of 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas, were conducting operations near the town of Muhammad al’Abbas when a local woman approached requesting medical aid for her three-year-old son.
The boy was involved in a hot water accident which caused second-degree burns on the child’s face and upper body May 7th.

The injuries were severe enough for the boy to be evacuated to the Muleskinner Clinic where he was treated and stabilized. The clinic is run by Company C, 115th Brigade Support Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team.

U.S. Army Maj. Joseph Johnson, a brigade surgeon with 2nd BCT, 82nd Airborne Division, said when the child arrived he was in no immediate danger, but quickly administered fluid resuscitation and pain medication to ease the boy’s suffering.

After the child’s burns were dressed and stabilized, he was transferred to the Coalition Military Assistance Training Team (CMATT) clinic.

(PHOTO: U.S. Army Maj. Joseph Johnson, the brigade surgeon with the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, stabilizes an Iraqi boy with second-degree burns to his face, shoulders and chest from an accident involving hot water May 9. The boy’s mother asked for help from Soldiers with the 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, who were conducting operations in her neighborhood. U.S. Army Photo.)

Read the Rest...