Disaster medicine: current status and future directions of emergency medical team for overseas disaster crisis.
10.5124/jkma.2017.60.2.149
- Author:
Minhong CHOA
1
;
Jiyoung NOH
;
Hyun Soo CHUNG
Author Information
1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. hsc104@yuhs.ac
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Disasters;
Foreign medical teams;
Emergency medical teams
- MeSH:
Disaster Medicine*;
Disasters*;
Earthquakes;
Emergencies*;
Haiti;
Mobile Health Units;
Specialization;
Standard of Care;
World Health Organization
- From:Journal of the Korean Medical Association
2017;60(2):149-155
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Through the Declaration of Montevideo in 2011, the World Medical Association suggested that doctors worldwide should be trained in basic disaster response regardless of their specialty. The Haiti earthquake in 2010, which had the highest number of foreign medical team dispatched from all over the world, proved that untrained and disorganized team only brought confusion. This event led the World Health Organization to develop the ‘Classification and Minimum Standards for Foreign Medical Teams in Sudden Onset Disasters ’ in 2013. This guideline will become the standard for organizing an international emergency medical team. We should be able to provide high standard of care through field hospital set up and continuous training of disaster medicine specialists.
