00:00Three Philippine Emergency Medical Assistance Teams are ready to deploy to help Myanmar and Thailand.
00:06This is Floyd Bren reporting.
00:11Three Philippine Emergency Medical Assistance Teams, or PMATs, are ready to deploy to help Myanmar and Thailand
00:18after the magnitude 7.7 earthquake.
00:21Teodoro Herbosa ordered the PMATs to prepare for a possible mission
00:26after the protocols of coordination and acceptance of requests from the affected countries.
00:32The Philippine Emergency Medical Assistance Team, or PMAT Metro Manila, Luzon, and Visayas
00:38are certified by the World Health Organization, or WHO, and Japan Disaster Relief
00:44as Emergency Medical Team, or EMT.
00:47All three groups are classified as Type 1 Fixed EMTs
00:51that can provide immediate care to victims of trauma and non-trauma.
00:55All three PMATs are classified as Type 1 Fixed EMTs,
00:59which means they can provide daylight hours care for acute trauma and non-trauma presentations and referrals.
01:06The PMATs from DOH can also do ongoing health investigation or care
01:10and community-based primary care in an outpatient fixed facility.
01:15Floyd Brenz for Pambansang TV in Bagong, Philippines.
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