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  • Chapter 9 - Coordination and Organization of Medical Relief to Affected Areas

  • from Section 3 - Operational Considerations
  • Edited by Elhanan Bar-On, Kobi Peleg, Yitshak Kreiss
  • Book:
    Field Hospitals
    Published online:
    09 January 2020
    Print publication:
    09 January 2020, pp 68-79

  • Summary

    Providing humanitarian relief to affected populations is a top priority following a major sudden onset disaster (SOD). The main form of medical relief to affected areas is the emergency medical teams (EMTs). These are groups of health professionals and support staff operating locally or outside their country of origin by providing healthcare to disaster-affected populations. Despite best intentions, for decades EMTs were disorganized and followed no clear standards. In the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the EMT Working Group of the World Health Organization‘s global health cluster initiated a global effort to standardize the EMTs system. This new system was put to the test in 2013 with the deployment of medical aid to the Philippines following Typhon Haiyan, and later on during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and the earthquake in Nepal in 2015. This chapter reviews the history of medical aid to disaster affected areas, the process of coordinating and standardizing EMTs and the latest implementation of the new EMT coordination system.