 
Typically we deploy our emergency response teams
after sudden onset disasters like earthquakes and tsunamis
and also in conflict scenarios.
We can deploy a team globally,
we are not bound to one region.
And if we have sudden onset disaster
like an earthquake for exemple,
then we try to collect and process information
And upon the result of this process,
we will then decide if we get active or not.
First, we have to analyze what is really needed,
what is missing on material assistance on the ground
and then if we go for let's say health support for the people,
then we try to get our doctors, our nurses together in one team
and try to deploy them as soon as possible.
Usually in such cases you have shortages with flights and planes.
This is one of the logistical challenges that we have to face.
But the idea is to have as soon as possible a team on the ground.
Usually there are standards that we are following as well
and one of these standards is the UN Cluster system.
That means that the United Nations is going to set up different departments.
One is for health, the other one is for water and sanitation.
There are certain ones for protection and so on.
And when we deploy doctors and nurses
That means that when we provide
humanitarian aid in the health sector
then we will connect with the health cluster.
And this cluster will come together with other stakeholders
working in the health environment.
And we try to process the information,
we try to see what gaps we still have to fill
and then we deploy the teams exactly to their place.
All this is going to be coordinated by the cluster
with the cluster and with the other stakeholders.
The Emergency Medical Teams is an initiative
going back to the World Health Organization
upon the experience they made after the devastating earthquake in Haiti,
and also after the floods in Pakistan,
where the WHO decided that the humanitarian aid in the health sector
has to be on a certain level.
Because of this, they decided to create the Emergency Medical Teams
Malteser International is certified as an EMT 1,
that means we provide basic health after
sudden onset disasters but also in conflicts.
Always difficult decisions that we have to make
but we have to do this right from the very first day
that we have an exit strategy ready.
Usually we go back home if we decide
that our help is not needed anymore.
or if the local structures are strong enough
to match the challenges and the demands.
