Support to Humanitarian Missions

SOS can plan and support humanitarian aid organizations with the following services:

• Operational planning

• Medical emergency response and evacuation plans

• Communications

• GPS tracking

• Cultural competence training

• Conflict management training

• Driver training

• Situational awareness and personal security training

• First Aid training

• Panic buttons

• 24/7 coordination through the SOS Medical Operations Centre (MOC)

• Medical direction

• Medical services (emergency and primary care)

• Transport

• Epidemiological studies, disease surveillance and health alerts

• Medical missions

• Vaccination programmes

• Point of care testing (rapid tests for Zika, Dengue, Malaria, Chikungunya, COVID, heart attack, pneumonia)

• Supply of medical personnel

• Clinical governance system

• Clinics

• Ground ambulances

• Air ambulances

• Telemedicine

• Community education

• Critical care posts

SOS have provided operational medical support and training to humanitarian organisations, including:

• Red Cross, GUATEMALA - Cambray landslide disaster (emergency medical care)

• CONRED, GUATEMALA - Tropical Storm Agatha (aid delivery)

• CONRED, GUATEMALA - Volan de Fuego eruption (Medical mission)

• Red Cross & CONRED, GUATEMALA - Helicopter Search & Rescue (SAR) operations

• Red Cross, ECUADOR - Remote area first aid training

• Red Cross, Chinandega, NICARAGUA - Trauma first responder training during social unrest

• Volunteer Fire Service Rescue Brigade No.13, GUATEMALA - Mountain medicine, survival & rescue training

• Kids OR, PERU & ECUADOR, Consultancy

• Unidad Humanitaria de Rescate (UHR), GUATEMALA, Trauma care (TCCC) training

• Volunteer Fire Service Rescue Brigade (Occidente), GUATEMALA - Mountain medicine training

• Education for the Children Foundation, GUATEMALA - pediatric clinics and vaccination programmes (Antigua)

• Go Guatemala, GUATEMALA - clinics for underserved communities (Monterirco)

• Rios Guatemala, GUATEMALA - clinics (medical missions) for underserved communities (Escuintla)

• Socorro Alpina Guatemalteco (SAG), GUATEMALA - Medical mission (la Soledad, Yepocapa)

• Xela, GUATEMALA - Medical Mission

• Rios Guatemala, River guides - Remote area first aid (Escuintla)