During the second leg of Pacific Partnership 2017, Navy Social Worker Lt. Stacey Uzueta, of Naval Hospital Bremerton's Case Management Department, joined host nation Malaysia, and other partner nations during a humanitarian assistance and disaster relief exercise in Kuching, Malaysia, that was based on a flood scenario where individuals were rescued via boat, helicopter or ambulance and transported to the field hospital. Uzueta was responsible for providing psychological first aid and was selected for the Malaysia engagement due to her expertise in stress and trauma. Along with two weeks
During the second leg of Pacific Partnership 2017, Navy Social Worker Lt. Stacey Uzueta, of Naval Hospital Bremerton's Case Management Department, joined host nation Malaysia, and other partner nations during a humanitarian assistance and disaster relief exercise in Kuching, Malaysia, that was based on a flood scenario where individuals were rescued via boat, helicopter or ambulance and transported to the field hospital. Uzueta was responsible for providing psychological first aid and was selected for the Malaysia engagement due to her expertise in stress and trauma. Along with two weeks in the coastal city of Kuching on the island of Borneo, she also spent one week in the capital of Kuala Lumpur. Pacific Partnership is the largest annual multilateral humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Asia-Pacific and aims to enhance regional coordination in areas such as medical readiness and preparedness for manmade and natural disasters
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