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20301077

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-3-19
pubmed:abstractText
The large number casualties caused by the 1995 Great Hanshin and Awaji Earthquake created a massive demand for medical care. However, as area hospitals also were damaged by the earthquake, they were unable to perform their usual functions. Therefore, the care capacity was reduced greatly. Thus, the needs to: (1) transport a large number of injured and ill people out of the disaster-affected area; and (2) dispatch medical teams to perform such wide-area transfers were clear. The need for trained medical teams to provide medical assistance also was made clear after the Niigata-ken Chuetsu Earthquake in 2004. Therefore, the Japanese government decided to establish Disaster Medical Assistance Teams (DMATs), as "mobile, trained medical teams that rapidly can be deployed during the acute phase of a sudden-onset disaster". Disaster Medical Assistance Teams have been established in much of Japan. The provision of emergency relief and medical care and the enhancement and promotion of DMATs for wide-area deployments during disasters were incorporated formally in the Basic Plan for Disaster Prevention in its July 2005 amendment.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
T
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1049-023X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
24
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
556-64
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Establishing disaster medical assistance teams in Japan.
pubmed:affiliation
National Hospital Organization Disaster Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan. kondo@kch.biglobe.ne.jp
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't