EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INTEGRATION WITH PUBLIC HEALTH
By Ahed Najjar, Regional Training Manager MEA (International SOS - Dubai), AHA Regional Faculty – Global, EMS Consultant - United Nations (UNOPS)
W
hen a typical emergency arises in the community, and concerned people call for
medical assistance, they would want fast and efficient service from a professional team of trained staff and the accurate and reliable equipment from their local Emergency Medical Services provider. Their expectations are raised by what is perceived within different media forms, not by the true happenings and events in their own surrounding which they lack knowledge of, but in the end, will always vary from different set-ups and environments. Sadly, very few EMS systems engage in proper procedure and practices
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to assure the members of the community that they really have everything in control and can actually prioritize the varying demands of the community at large. The public health sector is in dire need of a reliable system to systematically integrate their resources, man-power, advantages and political will to layout a definite positioning of their clientele, the existing and anticipatory needs of these customers, and how to address specified problems within their community. With this system, the EMS can focus its limited resources and can empower the services of the public health sector for better health services for the community.
«The public health sector is in dire need of a reliable system to systematically integrate their resources»
“EMS must expand its public health role
and develop ongoing relationships with community public health and social service resources”. These factual statements, according to Ahed Al Najjar, is the key factor in one of the major steps in achieving the collaborative integration many developed communities immediately need.
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