Domestic and overseas disaster medical support | The National Emergency Medical Center

Domestic and overseas disaster medical support

Enhances competency for prompt and professional medical support in case of national disaster

Summary

Background and objectives of the business

To protect people’s lives and health and reduce preventable mortality and disability rate with prompt emergency medical support in the case of domestic and overseas disasters
Reducing the loss of lives and minimizing disabilities in mass casualty incident through the coordination of initial medical response

Goals

To enhance competency for prompt and professional medical support in case of national disaster
To be equipped with regional disaster response system by cultivating professional disaster medical support personnel
To develop rapid disaster medical response system for minimizing casualties due to enhance the competency of disaster response system

Rate of EMS workers that have completed disaster medical support education training 95% in 2016 to over 96% in 2017

Rate of EMS workers that have completed disaster medical support education training 95% in 2016 to over 96% in 2017

Number of times the disaster medical support education training has taken. More than 3 times / year

Number of times the disaster medical support education training has taken. More than 3 times / year

Summary

Legal basis

Article 25 (1)-5 of the Emergency Medical Service Act: Education and training for EMS workers Promotion system

Promotion system

국내외재난의료지원 사업 관련 추진체계

Contents

Contents
Task	Task contents	Business Target
Disaster·Emergency Medical Operation Center	24/7 Disaster monitoring and allocating medical resource through the initiation disaster medical response in case of emergency Supporting inter-hospital transferring of critically ill patients Other projects which need intervention	Ministry of Health and Welfare Local Governments EMS institutions
Disaster medical support education and training for EMS workers	Operate education and training programmes Disaster emergency medicine training competition Manage disaster medicine emergency response manual operating committee	Regional DMAT
Enhances the competency of NMC disaster medical support	Organizes and operates disaster response team Operate education and training programmes for CERT	Central DMAT
Enhances the competence of national disaster medical support	Build local disaster medicine system Support the training fee for disaster medicine training Manage meetings for people in charge for disaster medicine Develop the work manual for disaster medicine Cooperation strengthening between related organizations Discuss ways to cooperate disaster response and to revise the work manual Introduce and manage Field hospital Recruit the members and trainings Manage the stock pile Level 1 : triage and first aid Level 2 : Emergency Room and small surgeries Level 3 : operate general hospitals based on ER Disaster response exercise, emergency medical support for national event Radioactivity terror response civil-military-government joint training Nuclear radiation prevention joint training Joint training conducted by The Ministry of Public Safety and Security Medical support for Sewol ferry salvage plan Interagency Joint field exercise and table top exercise Manage surprise exercises to sudden onset disaster	Ministry of Health and Welfare Local governments (city, province) Local emergency medical centers Institute of Radiological & Medical Sciences Army, police, fire stations