Program for Enhancement of Emergency Response (PEER) Updates

HOPE Course Design Meeting in Bangkok

A Hospital Preparedness for Emergency (HOPE) course design meeting was conducted from 25-26 March in Bangkok. A draft of the course topics was reviewed and put into a five-day course session consisting of four HOPE components: organizational, structural, non-structural and medical. This is the first of a series of development and review meetings at the end of which course materials will be ready for pilot testing.

MFR Course in India and Indonesia

The Medical First Response (MFR) Course for India was held from 17-30 March 2002, and for Indonesia from 7-20 April 2002. MFR India participants came from first response agencies in Delhi, while participants of MFR Indonesia came from first response organizations based in Jakarta. The team of instructors was comprised of regional MFR graduates who attended the MFR Instructor Workshop in Thailand. Master trainers from Miami Dade Fire Rescue Department were the course monitors.

CSSR Course in Nepal

A Collapsed Structure Search and Rescue (CSSR) Course and a CSSR Adaptation Workshop will be conducted in Kathmandu, Nepal from 28 April to 8 May 2002. The course will be attended by search and rescue personnel from India and Nepal. The purpose of CSSR is to provide individuals with search and rescue tasks, the knowledge and skills necessary to search for, stabilize and extricate victims trapped in collapsed structures using the safest and most appropriate techniques.

SAR Canine Training in Nepal

ADPC, in collaboration with the Royal Nepal Army and the Royal Nepal Police, will conduct training on Search and Rescue Canines in Kathmandu from 6-11 May 2002. The purpose of the training is to provide dog handlers with skills to train dogs to search for live victims trapped in collapsed structures during disaster situations.