The team has to be fully self-sufficient when deployed to disaster zones.
When deployed, a team of 33 medical, technical and administrative personnel will head to the crisis site to set up a facility akin to a field hospital.
“Being able to deploy quickly and to be self-sufficient if there are no local facilities operational, there are no hotels to stay in, there is no food in the market... and to provide high quality clinical care to the standards that any of us would accept for ourselves or for our families is one of the core principles of EMTs,” he added.
When deployed, a team of 33 medical, technical and administrative personnel will head to the crisis site to set up a facility akin to a field hospital. The facility will provide emergency services, primary care, and maternal and child health outpatient care to more than 100 patients a day for up to two weeks.
“They taught us how to set up and refill the generators, and where we should run the cables. They also taught us how to lay down the water pipes,” said Dr Joy Quah, SGEMT’s clinical lead, who is also a consultant at Singapore General Hospital’s emergency medicine department. “SGEMT is the first to bring in a clinical psychologist. We found that it was very important because the clinical psychologist not only looks after casualties of the disaster, but also he or she will be able to take the time to look after the staff as well,” Dr Quah said.
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