ERU Deployments: Making a Lasting Impact

An ERU deployment can last up to four months, during which Canadian Red Cross personnel work closely with the Red Cross from the affected country as well as with local doctors and nurses.

At the end of the operation, the Canadian Red Cross can handover the equipment, with the required training and support for local actors to reuse the field hospital.

For instance, after Typhoon Haiyan in Philippines in November 2013, CRC handed over the field hospital to the Philippines Red Cross and conducted a two-year project to support them in maintaining and re-deploying the field hospital. Since then, the Philippines Red Cross has re-deployed it to domestic disasters and assisted thousands of people.

Similarly, in Nepal and Ecuador, the CRC is conducting the same process where the equipment was handed over to the local Red Cross and will be re-utilized for future domestic response. 
 

Country of Operation	Type of Disaster	Date of Response
Haiti	Hurricane	2016 Deployment complete
Ecuador	Earthquake	2016 Handed over to the Ecuador Red Cross with a capacity building project
Tanzania	Population Movement	2015-16 Deployment complete
Greece	Population Movement	2015-16 Deployment complete
Nepal	Earthquake	2015 Handed over to the Nepal Red Cross with a capacity building project
Sierra Leone	Ebola Outbreak	2014 Deployment complete
Guinea	Ebola Outbreak	2014 Deployment complete
Chile	Earthquake	2014 Deployment complete
Philippines	Typhoon	2013 Handed over to the Philippine Red Cross with a capacity building project
Jordan	Population Movement	2013-14 Deployment complete
South Sudan	Internal Violence	2013 Deployment complete
Mozambique	Floods	2013 Deployment complete
Sierra Leone	Cholera Outbreak	2012 Deployment complete
Chad	Cholera Outbreak	2011 Deployment complete
Haiti	Cholera Outbreak	2010 Deployment complete

Canadian Red Cross ERUs in the media

• Medical aid is reaching more remote areas, and so are the patients
• Brampton doctor helping Syrian refugees
• B.C., Red Cross prepare for disasters with field hospital
• Sidney Ground Zero for Red Cross disaster training
• Powering Red Cross field hospitals with solar energy
• Typhoon Haiyan: Canadian Red Cross Field Hospital Experience (VIDEO)
• Birth in Red Cross field hospital in Haiti (VIDEO)

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