Citation

Cranmer HH, Biddinger PD. New Engl. J. Med. 2014; 370(13): 1185-1187.

Affiliation

From the Department of Emergency Medicine (H.H.C., P.D.B.) and the Center for Global Health (H.H.C.), Massachusetts General Hospital; and the Division of Policy Translation and Leadership Development, Harvard School of Public Health (P.D.B.) - both in Boston.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Massachusetts Medical Society)

DOI

10.1056/NEJMp1401820

PMID

24552286

Abstract

When international medical response teams landed in the Philippines last November in the days and weeks after Super Typhoon Haiyan hit, it was immediately apparent that they needed to act as professional humanitarian responders. The top priority was not that they deploy their medical skills but that they support the plans that were already in place. Although there were posters directing foreign medical response teams to register with the Philippine government, the trucks loaded with bags of rice from the World Food Program being delivered to the Department of Social Welfare and Development should have tipped off the response teams . . .

Language: en