Its aim is to provide specialist wound care to former members of the military.

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The charity has said it had taken a while for the "gap" between military and NHS wound care to be recognised.

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"We only expected weakness in the over-the-counter segment, but other areas, including oral care and wound care were weaker than we anticipated, " Conover said.

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Macdonald, a wound care specialist, says he was devastated to see people dying in Haiti after the quake from wounds that could have been easily treated.

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Macdonald yearned to start a clinic just for wound care.

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For instance, half of those doing wound care, such as changing dressings or treating bed sores, said they learned how to perform these tasks on their own or from a friend or neighbor (though some reported getting help from medical professionals as well).

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Once the burn has cooled, health care professionals will clean the wound and remove all nonhealthy tissue in a process called debridement, Grossman said.

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Only a modest fraction of these funds wound up going toward civilian economic development, health care, and consumer goods.

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Kadish was later airlifted to Children's Hospital, a pediatric critical care center, for treatment of a bullet wound to his leg.

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One out of every three times patients wound up in nursing homes that year, they landed in facilities that failed to follow basic care requirements laid out by the federal agency that administers Medicare, investigators estimated.

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