Fw: EMSNEWS Digest - 29 Dec 2000 to 30 Dec 2000 (#2000-262)

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Japan - Defense Agency to set up ASDF paramedic units

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> http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20001231wo31.htm

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> Defense Agency to set up ASDF paramedic units

> Yomiuri Shimbun

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> The Defense Agency has decided to create mobile medical units within the

Air

> Self-Defense Force in order to improve its capacity to offer medical

> assistance in the event of large-scale natural disasasters and armed

> conflicts, according to sources.

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> The agency plans to set up the new units at five locations around the

> country, including SDF hospitals and air bases, during the next midterm

> defense program, which starts in fiscal 2001 and ends in fiscal 2005.

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> A unit will comprise two teams of medical officers, nurses and paramedics.

> Their main task will be to transport patients in helicopters or other

> aircraft to hospitals in the event that many people are seriously injured

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> large-scale disasters.

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> Medical units will be stationed at the following SDF facilities: Misawa

SDF

> Hospital in Misawa, Aomori Prefecture; Gifu SDF Hospital in Kagamihara,

Gifu

> Prefecture; Naha SDF Hospital in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture; the Central

> Aircraft Control and Warning Wing in Iruma, Saitama Prefecture; and the

> Western Aircraft Control and Warning Wing in Kasuga, Fukuoka Prefecture.

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