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(P1-111) Japan Medical Association Team (JMAT)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2011

T. Nagata
Affiliation:
Comittee on Disaster Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
T. Ishihara
Affiliation:
Comittee on Disaster Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
H. Inasaka
Affiliation:
Comittee on Disaster Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
T. Sakamoto
Affiliation:
Comittee on Disaster Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
M. Akashi
Affiliation:
Research Center for Radiation Emergency Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Y. Otomo
Affiliation:
Acute Critical Care and Disaster Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
K. Koriyama
Affiliation:
Kitakyushu, Japan
H. Kobayashi
Affiliation:
Tokyo, Japan
T. Ido
Affiliation:
Comittee on Disaster Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
S. Ishi
Affiliation:
Comittee on Disaster Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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Abstract

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Disaster preparedness is one of the national priorities. In Japan, disaster medicine is defined as a part of the national medical plan initiated by Ministry of Health, Welfare and Labor. The Japan Medical Association is the largest professional physicians' group in Japan, and has contributed to all kinds of disaster relief work regionally and nation-wide for years. Based on past successes, the Japan Medical Association proposes a new disaster action plan named Japan Medical Association Team (JMAT). The primary mission of JMAT is to deploy to the disaster scene requested and work for disaster relief. JMAT covers the acute to sub-acute phase of disaster response, and also collaborate with other agencies. In the preparation and mitigation phases, the Japan Medical Association work for establishing mutual disaster aid partnerships, disaster plans, networks with other agencies, team building, disaster medicine training and education, etc. In Japan, the Disaster Medical Assistant Team (DMAT) has been established based on the experience of the 1995 Kobe Earthquake, when lots of preventable trauma deaths occurred because of delayed medical response. The mission of DMAT is to deploy to the scene immediately and triage/transfer the most serious disaster victims outside the scene for advanced medical care. DMAT covers the first 48 hours of disaster response phase, and then JMAT takes charge of the work. JMAT will also respond to chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear disasters, and international humanitarian work. The present issues of establishing JMAT are 1.training and education for Japan Medical Association members, 2.establising cooperation with other agencies, and 3.having presence at the Central Disaster Committee, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan.

Type
Poster Abstracts 17th World Congress for Disaster and Emergency Medicine
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2011