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This week the WHO Emergency Medical Teams (EMT) Secretariat held a ceremony to recognize the international classification of the New Zealand Medical Assistant Team (NZMAT)ÔÇöadding to the global number of self-sufficient teams ready to be deployed to health emergencies should the need arise.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) have launched a comprehensive report entitled ÔÇ£The Regulation and Management of International Emergency Medical TeamsÔÇØ. The report provides an overview of the issues in regulating and managing international emergency medical teams (also known as ÔÇÿEMTsÔÇÖ) in a range of large and small-scale sudden onset disasters.
7 May 2017 ÔÇô Thousands of people have been seriously wounded as a result of the conflict in Mosul, with many patients facing permanent disability as a result of their injuries. To date, more than 8000 people, many of them civilians including women and children, have received treatment in hospitals for trauma injuries since west Mosul operations began. For some, these injuries are life-changing.
15 June 2017ÔÇöThis 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 NGOÔÇÖs 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.
The WHO Emergency Medical Teams (EMT) Initiative has been working to help improve the timeliness and quality of health services provided by national and international Emergency Medical Teams. Part and parcel to this, is the need to build the capacity of national health authorities to lead the coordination of the emergency response of EMTs through a coordination cell. Read more about it here
The Health Emergency Management Bureau (HEMB) of the Department of Health (DoH) of the Philippines, together with the World Health Organization, concluded recently a series of planning workshops as part of the ÔÇ£Enhancing the Philippine Emergency Medical TeamsÔÇØ project. The project aims to reinforce the current emergency response capacity of the agency and ensure timely mobilization of its resources during disasters .
28 March 2017ÔÇöThirty staff members from the Health Bureau of Macao SAR participated in a two day workshop organized by the WHO Emergency Medical Teams (EMT) Initiative. This workshop helped brief health professionals on the mechanisms of an EMT response in the event of a disaster or a disease outbreak.
Galvanizing the development of operational standards for EMT response, WHO Indonesia in collaboration with the Health Crisis Centre of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia held Informal Consultation on Standardization and Coordination of Emergency Medical Teams in Jakarta, Indonesia on 11-12 April 2017.
8 March 2017ÔÇô A mission was conducted by WHO technical teams in Islamic Republic of Iran from 22 to 27 April 2017 to assess and assist the countryÔÇÖs emergency medical team system with the purpose of strengthening the response capacity across all-hazard emergencies. The mission brought together different stakeholders to discuss the most updated global practices and mechanisms.
Twenty-three health professionals from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan were trained on management and coordination of large-scale emergencies that require a response from medical teams. This is the first Emergency Medical Team (EMT) training for this part of the WHO European Region and took place in Astana, Kazakhstan on 16ÔÇô17 May 2017.