1. INSARAG Americas Regional Group
XIII Meeting of the
INSARAG Americas Regional Group
Medical Working Group Updates
Lima, Peru
15-17 October 2014

2. 2013 ISG Meeting ISG WG Recommendations:
Medical Working Group (MWG) – To continue meeting in 2014 and support the work of the guidelines review.

3. Group Composition Interim chair from 2014 – USA: Anthony Macintyr
Previous chair, Trevor Glass withdrew due to personal reasons and sponsorship challenges
Americas
USA
Africa/Europe/Middle East:
Netherlands
UAE (Chairman)
UK (Govt & NGO)
Asia-Pacific
China
Japan
World Health Organization (WHO)
INSARAG Steering Group Meeting, Geneva 13 – 14 February 2014

4. 2013 – 2014 MWG Activities Medical Guidance Note developments
Urban Search and Rescue in extreme environments
Supporting the Guidelines Review Group (GRG)
Collaborating with TWG & OWG
Collaborating with WHO on Foreign Medical Teams (FMT)

5. Collaboration with TWG/OWG
Review of IEC/R Handbook
Status – Completed
Review of the IEC/R Checklist
Output IEC/R Checklist 2014
Provided input into the USAR Coordination Cell concept of operations

6. Collaboration with WHO FMT
The FMT initiative seeks to enhance medical response to disasters and is parallel in many ways to INSARAG:
Seeks broad support for a classification system and authorisation process
Development and implementation of a global register
Strengthening of on-site coordination mechanisms VO
OSOCC
UC/FMT cells?
Provision of technical and operational support
Status – On-going

7. Next Steps Support in technical documentation
Input for guidelines review
Continued coordination with FMT initiative
Any other technical work as proposed in the TL Meeting