Radiation and emergency medical management in india

1. RADIATION AND
EMERGENCY MEDICAL
MANAGEMENT IN INDIA

2. INTRODUCTION
What is disaster?
Any occurrence that causes
damage,ecological disruption,
loss of human life,
deterioration of health and health services
on a scale, sufficient to warrant an
extraordinary response from outside the
affected community.

3. Disaster Risk Management For Health
• Disasters and other emergencies often result in
significant impacts on people’s health, including the loss
of many lives.
• Deaths, injuries, diseases, disabilities, psychosocial
problems and other health impacts can be avoided or
reduced by disaster risk management measures
involving health and other sectors.
• Disaster risk management for health is multisectoral and
refers to the systematic analysis and management of
health risks, through a combination of preparedness,
response and recovery measures.

4. …conti
•Every new threat reveals the challenges for
managing health risks and effects of
emergencies and disasters.
•The main focus of the health sector has been
on the response to emergencies.

6. Uses of Radiation Emergency
Medical Management
oDisaster Preparedness and Response
-Recognize a radiation or nuclear event.
-Know how to respond to an event.
oHospital Planning
-How to develop a radiation response
team.

7. Emergency Medical
Management

8. DISASTER MEDICINE
• More than 4 million people worldwide have
lost their lives and hundreds of millions
have suffered due to natural and man-
made disasters during the past 30 years.
• Disaster medicine and prevention is a
system of study and medical practice
encompassing the disciplines of
emergency medicine and public health.

9. TYPES OF MEDICINE
• Medical disaster: Any event that causes a
large number of individuals to become ill
or injured and overwhelms the medical
system resources available at a given time
in a given time.
• Mutual aid: Agreements between
neighboring communities to provide
support and assistance in the event of a
disaster.

10. Management plan for hospitals and
medical centers facing radiation
and emergency incidents:-
•Preparedness of emergency medical staff and health
care units against nuclear incidents is nowadays a
global concern.
•Hospitals and health care centers are among first
responding units in times of crisis.
•According to some reports, medical staff refused to
attend to nuclear victims since they were too scared of
being contaminated or radiated from their patients.

11. CONCLUSION
• The main objective of an emergency
medical team in a radiation incident is to
save as many lives of the severely injured
casualties as possible. There are reducing
the imapcts on many health issues and
emergency cases.