Dr Wan Azizah says the elite rescue team would help their Brunei counterparts gain international recognition.
The Special Malaysian Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team will be a mentor to the Brunei rescue team that wishes to get recognition from the International Search and Rescue Advisory Group , said Deputy Prime Minister Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail.
Wan Azizah said the recognition enabled the search and rescue team of a country to assist in rescue missions abroad. Smart, which was set up in 1997, has assisted Indonesia, Turkey, India, Pakistan, the Philippines, Ukraine, and Nepal in various search and rescue operations as well as humanitarian missions.
"We cannot forget Smart's role during the tropical storm Greg which hit Sabah in 1994, the Mount Kinabalu earthquake in 2015, the Penang landslide in 2017, the MH17 tragedy in Ukraine and the latest, in Pasir Gudang for the chemical waste pollution from March 14 until the operation ended," she said.
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