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Volunteers with the South-Central Missouri Reserve Corps recently received training on using portable radios during catastrophic emergencies.
The Reserve Corps volunteers are practicing or retired healthcare professionals and community members with or without medical training who stand ready to expand public health and medical needs during emergencies in Region I, a six-county region encompassing Phelps, Maries, Pulaski, Crawford, Dent and Laclede.
The mobile-radio training was provided to the volunteers by Phelps County Emergency Management Director Bruce Southard.
Southard trained the volunteers how to communicate properly on the radios during emergency situations at their quarterly-meeting on April 16, should the volunteers be needed to assist in operating a mass-care shelter and distribute medications or vaccines, while supporting local law-enforcement and other emergency service providers during a mass emergency.
Beverly Stewart, with the Phelps/Maries County Health Department, said the volunteers have participated in a total of four drills in conjunction with the Health Department and Phelps County Regional Medical Center.
“The theme for National Volunteer Recognition Week, April 19-25, is ‘Celebrating People in Action,’” Stewart said. “We would like to thank all those individuals who have stepped up to volunteer for the South-Central Missouri Medical Reserve Corps.
“They recognize the need to take action in being organized and prepared to serve their community in case of a large-scale emergency or disaster,” Stewart said.
“To continue to serve in an organization preparing, for what we hope will never happen, takes great dedication and commitment,” Stewart said.
Since November, 2007, when Stewart was named the Medical Reserve Corps volunteer coordinator, the membership has tripled, and volunteers have completed an “impressive” training program, she said.
Some of the volunteers’ training includes first-aid, CPR, psychological first-aid and shelter operations.
For more information about volunteering for the South-Central Missouri Medical Reserve Corps, contact Beverly Stewart at 456-6032.
Volunteers with the South-Central Missouri Reserve Corps recently received training on using portable radios during catastrophic emergencies.
The Reserve Corps volunteers are practicing or retired healthcare professionals and community members with or without medical training who stand ready to expand public health and medical needs during emergencies in Region I, a six-county region encompassing Phelps, Maries, Pulaski, Crawford, Dent and Laclede.
The mobile-radio training was provided to the volunteers by Phelps County Emergency Management Director Bruce Southard.
Southard trained the volunteers how to communicate properly on the radios during emergency situations at their quarterly-meeting on April 16, should the volunteers be needed to assist in operating a mass-care shelter and distribute medications or vaccines, while supporting local law-enforcement and other emergency service providers during a mass emergency.
Beverly Stewart, with the Phelps/Maries County Health Department, said the volunteers have participated in a total of four drills in conjunction with the Health Department and Phelps County Regional Medical Center.
“The theme for National Volunteer Recognition Week, April 19-25, is ‘Celebrating People in Action,’” Stewart said. “We would like to thank all those individuals who have stepped up to volunteer for the South-Central Missouri Medical Reserve Corps.
“They recognize the need to take action in being organized and prepared to serve their community in case of a large-scale emergency or disaster,” Stewart said.
“To continue to serve in an organization preparing, for what we hope will never happen, takes great dedication and commitment,” Stewart said.
Since November, 2007, when Stewart was named the Medical Reserve Corps volunteer coordinator, the membership has tripled, and volunteers have completed an “impressive” training program, she said.
Some of the volunteers’ training includes first-aid, CPR, psychological first-aid and shelter operations.
For more information about volunteering for the South-Central Missouri Medical Reserve Corps, contact Beverly Stewart at 456-6032.
