Newcastle medical trio in mercy trek to Mongolia - Today's News - News - JournalLive: "In Ulaanbataar in Mongolia the group will spend eight weeks working in the National Trauma and Orthopaedic Centre.
They will be helping in the accident and emergency department and other areas of the hospital, to improve their medical skills.
The students have teamed up with Newcastle University and Go Help a UK charity that works with local communities in Central Asia to improve their access to education and healthcare to complete the challenge. There is a huge shortfall of ambulances in Mongolia and many of the vehicles are poor in quality.
Ross said: There is a shortfall of ambulances of nearly 20% across Mongolia and those that are provided by the Government are of wildly varying quality"
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