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DoD Health Official Details Prep for WMD Response
Friday, October 25, 2002
By Rudi Williams
American Forces Press Service

Edward P. Wyatt Jr., principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, said DoD healthcare professionals are "well-prepared and practiced " to handle any contingency anywhere in the world.
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"The challenge is to integrate what's happening at those local and state level activities into what might be potential support from the military health care system."

FALLS CHURCH, Va. -- AFIS
Defense Department health care professionals are preparing to respond to a terrorist or weapons of mass destruction attack anywhere in the world.

Edward P. Wyatt Jr., principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, spoke to reporters here recently and highlighted what DoD is doing with the Department of Health and Human Services and local, state and federal agencies engaged in preparing for response to attacks in the homeland.

Wyatt said coordinated efforts include research and development and procurement. And, importantly, he remarked, these collaborative initiatives involve local-level training and exercising with state and local authorities to ensure all understand how to best integrate resources to address an emergency or contingency situation.
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