15 June 2017—This week the WHO EMT Secretariat led the classification of two more Emergency Medical Teams (EMT), adding to the global number of self-sufficient teams ready to be deployed to health emergencies should the need arise. The German teams, Johanniter International Assistance and Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund, are the first NGO’s to join the directory of classified teams, with Johanniter International being the first mobile Emergency Medical Team to be classified globally. The EMT directory so far has 11 classified teams and over 70 organizations working towards classification.
