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Ralf Knoche
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Emergency Medical Team – Development of Standard Operation Procedures for water supply, sewerage, solid waste, vector control and drainage
Period: 03/2018 – 10/2018
Employer: Malteser International
Description: In the course of new requirements of the World Health Organization MI was certified to continue providing health services in emergency. For this reason, a special unit was founded, the so called “Emergency Medical Team“ (EMT). The MI EMT was certified as ‘Level 1’ team, which qualifies to treat out-patients in case of emergency. One prerequisite is to set up and operate a camp, which has to be operated completely independent for 14 days. Only water and fuel are allowed to be procured at the location of operation.

Services
provided:
- Development of camp layout for WASH facilities
- Development of Standard Operation Procedures (SOPs) for WASH
facilities
- Assistance in procurement of material
- Assistance in execution of field exercise
- Assistance during certification process