NEMA Deputy Head visits emergency services of QLD
SocietyUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Deputy Head of the National Emergency
Management Agency (NEMA) Colonel Ts.Ganzorig got acquainted with the operation
of the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS), Disaster Management Centre, and Humanitarian
Supplies Warehouse of the Australian state of Queensland, holding bilateral
meetings with relevant officials.
The RFDS Queensland Section provides emergency and primary
health care services for those living in rural, remote and regional areas of
Australia. It receives on average 30 calls a day or around 1000 calls a year.
In addition to providing citizens with emergency medical care and transportation
services free of charge, the section conducts indoor and outdoor practical
training to constantly upskill its officials. Six sections of RFDS which was
established in 1917 have been dealing with about 1000 emergency calls a day,
the officials emphasized.
As for the disaster management center, its daily operation
is managed by the Queensland Fire and Emergency Services. The center handles
natural and technical disasters and accidents with 36,000 volunteer
firefighters, 6.000 volunteer rescuers, 2,200 professional firefighters and
2,000 subordinate firefighters. Currently, the center is fighting forest fires
across Queensland 24 hours a day.
The humanitarian supplies warehouse of Australia’s Department
of Foreign Affairs and Trade promptly delivers humanitarian supplies to countries
devastated by disasters and currently holds supplies sufficient for 10
thousand people of around 2,000 families. One third of the warehouse’s space is
used by other international organizations.