"Thirty-three workers trapped in an underground mine in northern Chile for more than a month will receive survival kits that U.S. and British troops relied on during combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, a Chilean Navy officer assigned to the rescue said.
The kits, which include tourniquets and bone injection guns, will be passed down to the men via 700-meter (2,300-feet) drill holes less than 4 inches wide."
"Some of the 33 trapped miners in Chile are being trained to help the group’s designated first-aider who had previous medical training, Llarena said.
“There’s no way we can operate on them, so we have to deal with that situation either remotely or through medication,” said Llarena, who has worked as ship doctor on a Type 22 Frigate that Chile’s Navy purchased from the U.K. in 2003. “I’m going to be here until the last of them gets out of the hole.”"
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