This past June, 11 years after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, International Medical Corps became the first American NGO to be classified by the WHO as a Fixed Type 1 EMT provider, capable of deploying a field outpatient facility quickly and providing medical services in response to a disaster anywhere in the world.
A few weeks after classification by the WHO, International Medical Corps deployed our EMT to the field for the first time with the help of our longtime supporter, FedEx—sending it to Haiti, where it all began. “For someone who worked on the EMT project from the start, it was truly an impressive sight to see it be deployed in Haiti,” says Susan Mangicaro, International Medical Corps’ Emergency Response Team Lead. Within a matter of several days, the EMT—which takes up roughly the space of a football field—was up and running with clean water, air conditioning and internet access. It operates with two consultation tents, a fully stocked pharmacy with a pharmacist and assistant, a reproductive health center, an infectious outbreak/isolation tent and more.
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