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Headquarters:
Address: 4-7-18 Hongo, Toride-Shai, Ibaraki-Ken 302-0022
Tel: +81-297-70-5301
Fax: +81-297-70-5302
Tokyo Office:
Address: 3-32-11-2F Kanamachi, Katsushika-Ku, Tokyo 125-0042
Tel: +81-3-3609-6100
Fax: +81-3-3609-7331
E-mail: meru@nifty.com
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Tokyo Office:
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Yasujuro Kamata |
MD., Ph.D. Chairman & CEO |
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Yukimasa Fukase |
Vice-Chairman |
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Jun Hasegawa |
Chief of Staff |
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Maki Tsukada |
Operation Officer |
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HQ (Ibaraki):
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Jinichi Okada |
Director & Secretary General
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Tsutomu Hirakawa
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Director
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Organizational Profile:
Profile
- Establishment: April 1999
(Registered as a non-profit-organization in Ibaraki prefecture under the 1998 NPO Act)
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Annual Budget: Yen 10,000,000
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Human Resources:
60 official members
20+ volunteers in both medical and non-medical fields
Activities
- Response to catastrophic emergencies requiring medical assistance
- Health-related logistical support in the event of emergencies (deployment and operation of emergency medical systems such as field hospitals)
- Provision of necessary training for medical volunteers
- Fostering multilateral networks between medical organizations, the government and other NGOs
Past Projects
July 1999 - January 2000 Kosovo
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MeRU restored a clinic and provided medical assistance to repatriating refugees in Peja and Decan Municipalities.
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- September 1999 Taiwan earthquake
- An emergency medical team was dispatched within 24 hours of the disaster to assist people in
Puli, Nantao province.
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October 1999 Tokaimura nuclear power plant accident
- Management of a temporary health center where 4000 residents were screened and examined.
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- November 1999 - March 2000 Emergency Disaster Action Manual
- MeRU was entrusted with the revision of the prefecture’s Emergency Disaster Action Manual as an advisory body to the government of Ibaraki prefecture.
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- April 2000 - Setting a medical operation
- With the request of UNHCR Tokyo, MeRU performed an emergency medical operation to a Kurdish refugee in Shirahigebasi hospital (a group member of MeRU)
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- October 2000 - Tottori earthquake
- A Rapid Assessment team was dispatched in 24 hours after the earthquake struck western Tottori prefecture.
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- February 2001 - May 2001 India earthquake
- MeRU sat up and ran a field hospital in Gujarat State with 7,400 consultation cases and 11 successful deliveries during three months of operation after the earthquake.
The Local government supported the operation in several ways: dispatching medical personnel and security guards, providing medications and organising vehicles for logistic support.
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- November 2001 - Afghanistan
- MeRU established a maternity clinic in Mazar-e-Sharif, northern Afghanistan as a response to the region's poor condition on maternal/infant mortality/morbidity.
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- Annual Activity: Supporting the General Fire Drill of Tokyo Metropolitan and Ibaraki Prefecture.
- Upon request from regional government of Tokyo and Ibaragk, MeRU supports these annual disaster-training courses in the medical field.
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* MeRU also frequently participates and takes leading role in disaster response drills organized by the Ibaraki
prefectural and Tokyo metropolitan governments.
(As of February 2002)
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