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EMT Response in COVID-19 Pandemic: Best Practices from Deployment of UK-MED and PCPM’s EMTs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2022

Ramnath Vadi  and
Wojtek Wilk
Ramnath Vadi
Affiliation:
UK-Med, Manchester, United Kingdom
Wojtek Wilk
Affiliation:
PCPM, Warsaw, Poland
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Abstract

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Background/Introduction:

As part of EU (Horizon 2020) HERoS program, UK-MED and PCPM compiled main operational difficulties faced by the two EMTs in 25 and seven COVID-19 deployments, respectively. In particular, the paper discusses the changing role of EMTs, as well as challenges faced in meeting high expectations of the respective Ministries of Health (MOH).

Objectives:

Documenting challenges faced by EMTs in COVID-19 response, lessons learned, and best practices.

Method/Description:

Review of mission reports; interviews with mission members; input from other EMTs (TBC).

Results/Outcomes:

The paper lists best practices of the two EMTs and recommendations to donors and EMT Secretariat, particularly linked to mission duration and collaboration with MOH.

Conclusion:

The paper lists best practices of the two EMTs and recommendations to donors and EMT Secretariat, particularly linked to mission duration and collaboration with MOH.

Type
Meeting Abstracts
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 37 , Supplement S2: Abstracts of World Health Organization Emergency Medical Teams Global Meeting 2022 , November 2022 , pp. s52
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine