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Draw what you remember about SOS MOUNTAIN DOCTORS this project: Every day, the European Union (EU) invests in its nearly 300 regions. The UNI! THEME sheets will help you discover dozens of examples showing the work of the EU’s regional policy. They cover many areas like the environment, education, health, energy and transport. Here is one of these stories...
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I love the mountains, they make me feel alive! The mountains are a place to live, have fun or work, but they are also a dangerous place where healthcare can be hard to access… Have a health question before or during a trip in the mountains? Ask SOS MAM!
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In the Alps, health professionals have created SOS MAM: a solidarity project for healthcare, training and rescue in the mountains. #top
Regional and Urban Policy IT’S A GREAT PROJECT!
Online doctor and health guide The mountains do not care about countries or borders, so it is important for the people who live there to work together. SOS MAM has created remote telephone and teleconference medical centres. If the weather or an accident makes travel Sharing resources, knowledge and skills is good for everyone. impossible, this allows people in the mountains to speak The French and the Swiss know this: with EU assistance, to a doctor.
they are helping each other, and talking to people in the Additionally, the SOS MAM centre helps travel specialists who MORE mountains around the world. want to prepare their trips as well as possible. These requests INFO come from all over the region, but also sometimes from other European regions. Climbing higher, TOGETHER! Island
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North Sea Baltic Lietuva Additional healthcare Danmark Sea Rossija Rossija Belarus Éire More info on the EU’s United Kingdom Nederland Polska Deutschland Ukraina België / Belgique Certain illnesses are common in the mountains and at high altitude: regional policy: Luxembourg Ceská Republika Slovensko Moldova Atlantic Did you know? Ocean Liechtenstein Österreich France Magyarország Schweiz / România Slovenija cold-related illnesses, altitude sickness, travel sickness, etc. Suisse / Svizzera http://europa.eu/!hm43kn Black Sea Hrvatska Bosna i Adriatic Sea The air we breathe is mostly nitrogen, with little Italia Hercegovina Srbija San България / Monaco Marino Crna Bulgaria Gora Kosovo Türkiye Portugal Poranešna Luckily, few people are affected. However, when it happens, España Andorra Jugoslovenska Republika Makedonija Shqipëria oxygen. The higher you go, the less oxygen the air Ελλάδα / Elláda Su we need doctors who can give the right help, fast!
Ionian Sea Lebanon Κύπρος / Kypros contains, so you get out of breath and tired faster More THEME sheets West El Djazair Tounis Malta Bank Jo El Maghreb Israel Mediterranean Sea Two French and Swiss medical centres have created the SOS MAM at higher altitudes. on the UNI! website: project, to help when the countries’ usual health services can’t. http://europa.eu/!Cb39Du The aim: to offer remote medical help to people in this region, where getting around is more difficult than in other areas, especially in winter. Do you know this game? E THREE QUE TH STI ON Doctors and citizens S is the first game where Another aim of this project is to make the population aware 1 strategy and solidarity of the risks, and to train amateur mountain rescue workers. Would you rather ski, snowboard, sledge, are one! This allows everyone to look a#er everyone else a little… or a lot. or sit by the fire in your slippers Find it here: with a hot chocolate? http://ec.europa.eu/ 2 regional_policy/uni/index_ Investigate: how many countries do the Alps fr.cfm go through? Three, six or eight? 3 The highest point in the EU is at the summit of Mont Blanc: true or false?