The first Indian and South Asian Faculty for Disaster Medicine was from Pune, India in 2015. The project was led by a partnership between ‘Saving Lives’ – Birmingham, National Institute for Pre-hospital Care & Trauma Management – Ruby Hall Clinic and The Sancheti Institute for Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation at Pune. The launch was successfully completed by providing foundation level training programme in ‘Disaster Medicine’ to around 75 doctors between Saturday 21st March and Sunday 22nd March 2015.
