Construction and Grouping of a Chinese People's Armed Police Forces Provincial-Level Mobile Rescue Hospital System

Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2018 Aug;12(4):502-506. doi: 10.1017/dmp.2016.110. Epub 2016 Nov 14.

Abstract

In recent years, with the increasingly frequent variety of large-scale disasters that have happened in China, the Chinese People's Armed Police Forces (PAP) has undertaken increasingly frequent and diversified tasks, which has led to greater requirements for the construction of emergency medical rescue equipment. Therefore, as determined by the characteristics of the PAP's tasks and based on the construction of special boxes and frame tent equipment, a new PAP mobile rescue hospital system was successfully developed, and all PAP provincial-level medical rescue teams have been equipped with this system. In the present article, we describe this mobile rescue hospital system, which is mainly composed of professional emergency vehicles, frame-type tents, and advanced medical equipment. The system has the following characteristics: significant integration, a fast response, flexibility, and practicability. The mobile rescue system is generally used as the army's own health service support system and to provide certain emergency medical rescue services to disaster-stricken people. The successful construction and further application of this system have significance in terms of accelerating the response of rescue teams and the emergency treatment ability of the PAP's provincial-level emergency medical rescue teams. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2018;12:455-459).

Keywords: disasters; emergency medical rescue; health service support; mobile hospital.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Ambulances / organization & administration
  • Ambulances / statistics & numerical data
  • China
  • Emergency Medical Service Communication Systems / trends*
  • Equipment and Supplies Utilization
  • Humans
  • Mobile Health Units / organization & administration
  • Mobile Health Units / statistics & numerical data
  • Police / statistics & numerical data
  • Police / trends*
  • Rescue Work / methods
  • Rescue Work / standards*