A Mobile Team consists up to nine (9) personnel which can access remote areas and provide outpatient services to over fifty patients a day. NZMAT has the capability to deploy two mobile teams simultaneously if required.
A Mobile Team:
- Deploy in between 24 to 48 hours from point of origin for a minimum period of 14 days
- Has a central base of operations leadership / coordination team
- Provides mobile outreach primary and emergency care
- Operational during daylight hours only within existing facilities / shelter or with own gazebo facility
- Deploys with appropriate equipment and supplies
- Adhere to the Emergency Medical Team (EMT) guiding principles and core standards
World Health Organization description
The World Health Organization provides the following brief description and key characteristics of Type-1 Mobile Team (2021):
Descriptor
- Outpatient initial care and referral for further investigation using mobile medical teams and serve hard to reach populations, according to the context of the emergency
Services
- Triage, Assessment, First Aid
- Treatment of trauma and non-trauma emergencies
- Stabilization and referral of patients requiring inpatient services and higher level of care
- Primary health care for basic communicable and non-communicable diseases, basic reproductive health services
Key characteristics
- Light, portable, adaptable
- Can work in remote areas to access small communities
- Either operating from suitable existing structures or supply their own mobile outpatient facilities, such as tents or special equipped vehicles as ‘Mobile medical clinics’
- Expected to have a base of operations allowing resupply and full compliance with all requirements of self-sufficiency, sterility, cold chain and supply chain
Minimal benchmark indicators
- Capable of treating at least 50 outpatients / day
Opening hours
- Daytime (shortened clinic times allowing safe travel to and from remote sites)
