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2. Disaster Preparedness
Disaster Triage
Disaster Response
Disaster Recovery
Disaster Mitigation

3. Def- The assignment of degrees of
urgency to wounds or illnesses to decide
the order of treatment of a large number of
patients or casualties
Or decide the order of treatment of
patients

4. Triage consists of rapidly classifying the
injured on the basis of the severity of their
injuries and the likelyhood of their survival
with prompt medical intervention
Higher priority is granted to victims whose
immediate or long term prognosis can be
affected by simple intensive care
Moribund patients who require a great deal
of attention ,have the lowest priority

5. Red indicates high priorty treatment or
transfer
 yellow signals medium priorty
 Green indicates ambulatory patients
 Black for dead or moribund patients

6. All patients should be identified with tags
stating their name,age,place of origin
,triage category, diagnosis and initial
treatment

7. Care of the dead includes :-
 Removal of the dead from the disaster
scene
 Shifting to the mortuary
 Identification
 Reception of bereaved relatives

8.  Disaster preparedness - is ongoing
multisectoral activity.
 Integral part of the national system
responsible for developing plans and
programmes for
 disaster management,
 prevention,
 mitigation,
 response,
 rehabilitation and
 reconstruction.

9.  Evaluation of the risk.
 Adopt standards and regulations.
 Organize communication and response
mechanism.
 Ensure all resources- ready and easily
mobilized.
 Develop public education programmes.
 Coordinate information with news media.
 Disaster simulation exercises.