Organization
NDMS has three major components:
- Emergency medical response by civilian medical teams, equipment, and supplies to a disaster area when local medical resources are overwhelmed
- Movement of ill and injured patients from a disaster area to areas unaffected by the disaster
- Definitive care of patients at hospitals in areas unaffected by the disaster.
Over 8,000 NDMS civilian volunteer medical personnel are organized into a number of types of medical teams, designed to accomplish the emergency medical response mission.
Read more about this topic: National Disaster Medical System
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