The Military Treatment Facility COVID-19 Response in an Isolated Rural Environment: Challenges and Lessons Learned.
Mil Med
; 186(12 suppl 2): 44-49, 2021 09 01.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1381022
ABSTRACT
The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic remains an extraordinary event that continues to strain healthcare systems worldwide. Unlike the military treatment facilities (MTFs) in the USA, which have ready access to tertiary care facilities, those MTFs in foreign countries confront a host of challenges in meeting mission requirements. In this article, we discuss the MTFs' COVID-19 response in the rural environment of Bavaria, Germany. Relevant factors including regional and clinic response, force health protection, and contingency planning, which influenced the MTFs response, are identified. These factors are further analyzed from a "lessons learned" perspective, and recommendations to shape the future response to a pandemic are provided. This current crisis portends a future where pandemics may remain an omnipresent threat.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
COVID-19
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Military Personnel
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Mil Med
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Milmed
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