short notes to clarify points how to prepare your hospital for disaster response

3. Goals of the plan
Our plan aim to secure and insure
• Patients’ Transfer inside or outside the scene.
• Primary treatment of casualties.
• Dealing with deaths and mortuaries.
• Medical resources and supplies.
• Continuity of medical services.
• Protection of our staff to continue work and
producing medical services.
• Good management and control during disaster.

4. Preparedness Cycle
Planning
Organize /
Equip
Train
Exercise
Evaluate /
Improve

8. Planning
Failure to
planning is the
planning to fail
All Hazard
Approach
Plan

9. Planning
When drawing your plan:
Imagine the worst event
At the worst moment
In the worst condition

10. Planning
Good planning – good outcome
Every member should know his responsibilities –
tasks – place of work.
Planning on different level of disaster
Awareness is part of planning

11. Planning
Every member in disaster responders
should be aware about:
The plan
and its
content.
Surrounding
risks –
hazards.
Our
resources.
Different
areas of
response
Awareness

12. Planning
Committee of planning:
• Members from all departments responsible
for disaster response, medical – police – other
stakeholders.
• Periodic meetings.
• Periodic evaluation.
• Periodic training programs.
• Periodic updates.

13. Organize – Equip

14. Training

15. Training
Theoretical: lectures – courses ….etc.
Practical: scenarios – table top training.
Drill: the most important part of training.

16. Exercise
Response should be act as real response during real
disaster according to pre prepared disaster plan.
We imagine there is disaster happened with
special scenario.
Drill: is the main part of practical
training.

17. Exercise
Every action should be documented by written
papers and videos.
Every responder should play his role
according to the plan.
It may be on small drill or big one to stand on
our perfection of work.

19. Evaluate
Evaluation The perfection of the plan.
The perfection of response.
Areas of weakness.
Areas of improvement.
Opportunities and threats during response.

20. Improve
When we know our
plan well and its
weakness we can
improve the
outcome of the plan
and the outcome of
our response.

21. Response team
Resources
• Human:
• Administration.
• EMT
• Physicians
• Trained personnel.
• Stakeholder.
• security

22. Response team
Equipment
•Ambulance cars.
•Available medical equipment.
•Stored equipment.
•Security equipment.
•Communication equipment.

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