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Working in the field to clear landmines is one of the most dangerous and complicated professions, and one can’t make any mistake, as a simple one can cost you your life. Taking safety and precautionary measure is essential in this mission, because protecting the lives of workers in this humanitarian work means the continuity of this benevolent process and guaranteeing the safety of experts who accomplish it.
And as the accidents in the clearance of landmines can’t be controlled nor predicted, project Masam’s management prioritizes the protection and safety of the deminers, starting from providing them with intensive courses about safety standards, giving them safety tools such as shields, and many protection tools that no deminer can enter a mined field without wearing them.
Project Masam’s management didn’t stop there, it worked on training specialized medical staff and providing them with medical devices and ambulances to accompany the clearing teams in all the Yemeni regions where they are deployed.
The Paramedic of team 13 Masam, Murad Abdallah Addiba reiterated in an exclusive interview with Masam’s media office that the medical staff who accompany the clearing teams work on a daily basis, and that the clearing teams move to the mined fields only with the presence of a Paramedic, because he is the savior in any case of emergency.
The Paramedic Murad Abdallah Addiba noted that one of the tasks assigned to the Paramedics is to train the clearing teams on how to evacuate in case a landmine exploded at a deminer, then the Paramedic will provide the necessary first aid to the wounded and move him to hospital, adding that the Paramedics who accompany the clearing teams take with them always all the medical data of every deminer in the clearing team.
Addiba explained his reason of joining project Masam in Yemen by saying that what led him to work in project Masam to accompany its clearing teams, despite the dangers and risks, was a humanitarian motivation, because the clearance of landmines and protection of civilians are the most noble human acts. He added that he and his colleagues are very proud because they are working in this great project, which was able – thanks to the dedication of Masam’s management and the perseverance of its clearing teams – to protect millions of Yemenis from an imminent danger that lurks near them.
Masam made and is still making huge efforts to care enormously about the mission of its medical staff who accompany Masam’s clearing teams on the ground, for safety is the cornerstone in its humanitarian mission in Yemen.