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HUMANITARIAN-MEDICAL EMERGENCY TEAM (in polish ZPHM: ZESPÓŁ POMOCY HUMANITARNO-MEDYCZNEJ)

The Humanitarian-Medical Emergency Team (HMET) is a unit operating within The Chancellery of the Prime Minister, established under the The Humanitarian-Medical Emergency Team’s Act of May 12, 2022. The mission of the Team is to provide immediate and necessary life-saving, medical and humanitarian assistance outside Republic of Poland to those who are in a state of health emergency or who may develop such a state due to delay in providing highly specialized medical assistance.

The Humanitarian-Medical Emergency Team conducts rescue and evacuation operations for citizens of the Republic of Poland who are victims of accidents and other emergencies, as well as provides medical security for operations related to providing assistance to citizens of the Republic of Poland and members of their families, who are citizens of other countries, including evacuation of endangered persons to a places of safety.

HMET also delivers humanitarian aid outside the Republic of Poland, resulting from bilateral or multilateral agreements signed by Poland. The aim of HMET operations is to support other countries and to conduct transport and medical actions.

The Humanitarian-Medical Emergency Team, in its activities, strives for self-sufficiency, which means ensuring to the maximum extent its own personnel and equipment resources, necessary to carry out tasks depending on their nature and duration of operations. The HMET's self-sufficiency is determined by having an adequate number of personnel on 24/7 standby, as well as having its own medical equipment and stocks of medical supplies, food supplies or equipment for autonomous power generation.

Members of the HMET are selected through an open recruitment. They are specialists with knowledge and experience in the field of medical rescue or humanitarian aid, including: physicians, dentists, paramedics, nurses, midwives, laboratory diagnosticians and lifeguards or other personnel necessary to carry out the tasks of the HMET, who have a certificate of completion of a course in qualified first aid.

Members of the Team may participate in national and international training and exercises, including civil protection, crisis management, civil defense and defense exercises. In addition, for the time of the tasks, trainings, exercises and the day-off necessary after their completion, members of the Team are entitled to exemption from work, which the employer or the entity employing the member of the HMET is obliged to grant.

The Chief of HMET is appointed by the Prime Minister.

The need for a permanent Team has been proven by the medical missions carried out on the territory of the following countries: Great Britain (medical support for Polish drivers in Dover), India (evacuation of Polish citizens), Slovakia (mission of Polish medics and representatives of uniformed services to assist Slovak medical services), Belgium (vaccinations of NATO Headquarters staff and representatives of the OSCE Permanent Monitoring Mission), Afghanistan (evacuation of Poles and Afghan citizens to places of safety).