About Emergency Medical Team Nederland (EMTN)
Emergency Medical Team Nederland (EMTN) is a Dutch humanitarian emergency-response organisation. They are establishing an officially recognised Dutch Emergency Medical Team in line with the WHO Emergency Medical Teams (EMT) initiative. EMTN’s aim is to enable rapid, effective, coordinated, life-saving medical assistance in disasters and crisis situations (nationally and internationally), including large-scale incidents, natural disasters, and conflict settings.
Collaborations with GHH-partners
NGOs / Humanitarian organisations
- Dokters van de Wereld
Collaboration on humanitarian medical response in crisis and conflict settings, including alignment of emergency care provision and access-to-care principles. - Save the Children
Collaboration focused on humanitarian response contexts, with particular relevance for continuity of essential health services for vulnerable populations during emergencies.
Knowledge institutes
- KIT (Royal Tropical Institute)
Collaboration on knowledge exchange related to global health, humanitarian response, and system-level learning in crisis and fragile settings.
Service providers / Emergency health infrastructure
- Hospitainer
Collaboration around deployable medical infrastructure and modular health facilities to support surge capacity in emergency and disaster contexts.
Overview of characteristics
Activities:
- Countries/regions of activity:
- Netherlands: establishing and organising national EMT capacity and readiness for large-scale incidents.
- Jordan, Gaza, Sudan, Afghanistan, Syria and Kenia: medical and humanitarian aid.
Community of Practice:
- CoP1: Strengthening health systems
Themes & subthemes:
- Emergency health system surge capacity / health system preparedness and resilience
- Emergency coordination and referral systems
- Workforce readiness and deployment models
- Continuity of essential health services in crises
- Quality standards and governance in emergency care
Organization type:
NGO
Available resources:
- Knowledge & expertise:
- WHO EMT standards alignment know-how
- Operational emergency-response expertise
- Networks:
- Access to a deployable pool of clinicians: EMTN is assembling a pool of specialised nurses and doctors willing to deploy to provide care
- Links into the broader EMT ecosystem via the WHO EMT framing (useful for coordination, shared doctrine, and interoperability)
- Tools, data, and infrastructure assets:
- Demonstrated capacity to deliver supplies and organise basic service delivery in crisis contexts
- Coordination capability:
- Coordination capability for rapid medical deployments