Galena health academy saves lives and communities

Submitted by Marie Gilbert
Phone: (907) 474-7412
08/04/04

For 14 Interior village high school students, the 2004 Galena Summer Health Academy was no laid-back summer camp.

During the camp’s three weeks, high school students from Anvik, Galena, Grayling, Huslia, Nulato, Ruby and Russian Mission pretended to rescue babies from burning buildings while blindfolded; learned to perform CPR and emergency first aid; rappelled off a water tower; practiced fire, water and ice rescue techniques; and heard from registered nurses, physician assistants and clinic managers about health careers.

Read more about the Galena Summer Health Academy, a program of the University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Rural Alaska, in the latest online newsroom feature story located at http://www.uaf.edu/news/featured/04/galena/.