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Medical team rapidly deployed to humanitarian crises

The Spanish Technical Aid Response Team (START) is a team of public health professionals and support personnel that is prepared to deploy within 72 hours to a humanitarian crisis anywhere in the world. The team is also known as the Red Vests due to the red vests worn by its members while in the field.

Organized by the Humanitarian Action Office of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), START was certified as a specialized team by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 31 May 2018 as part of its Emergency Medical Team (EMT) initiative. START is classified as an EMT II team, able to provide primary care as well as surgical support and hospitalization.

START was first deployed in 2019 to Dondo, Mozambique, in response to the humanitarian emergency caused by Cyclone Idai. In Mozambique, the team deployed a field hospital about the size of a football pitch.

The team was also part of the Spanish humanitarian response to the unplanned explosions at a munitions site in Bata, Equatorial Guinea in early 2021.

References

  1. ^ "Humanitarian Action". archive.ph. 2021-03-17. Archived from the original on 2021-03-17. Retrieved 2022-06-11.
  2. ^ "Portal Web AECID (Inglés) Emergency response". archive.ph. 2021-03-17. Archived from the original on 2021-03-17. Retrieved 2022-06-11.
  3. ^ "START Spanish Technical Aid Response Team: Equipo Médico de Respuesta…". archive.ph. 2021-03-17. Archived from the original on 2021-03-17. Retrieved 2022-06-11.
  4. ^ "Crisis del coronavirus: Los 'chalecos rojos' combaten en casa". archive.ph. 2021-03-17. Archived from the original on 2021-03-17. Retrieved 2022-06-11.
  5. ^ "START - Spanish Technical Aid Response Team" (PDF) (in Spanish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-03-17.
  6. "La cooperación española atiende ya a los afectados por ciclón en Moza…". archive.ph. 2021-03-17. Archived from the original on 2021-03-17. Retrieved 2022-06-11.
  7. "Equipos de España e Israel ayudan en Bata a los damnificados de la ex…". archive.ph. 2021-03-12. Archived from the original on 2021-03-12. Retrieved 2022-06-11.

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