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Raed Arafat describes the amazing lessons he has learnt about functional systems for emergencies, mass casualties and disasters. SMURD (Mobile Emergency Service for Resuscitation and Extrication) is in Emergency Rescue Service in Romania. It was set up by Raed Arafat in 1990 to respond to a largely non-existent and broken system. By doing so, he created a pre-hospital care system that he could be proud of. SMURD has today transformed into an integrated, country wide, emergency response system providing high quality care. Romania is one of the only countries in Europe where you have a right of emergency care. That is, you cannot be charged for being rescued or accessing emergency healthcare. This is largely due to Raed Arafat. He has created a functional system that deals not alone with daily emergencies, but also disasters and mass casualties. The national monitoring system and coordination service responds to fires, emergency incidents, critical transfers, and supports the whole country with resources from a