Hospital Emergency Preparedness & Response
Objective
Understand and list various hazard risks associated with Hospital and disasters
Apply a method of judging the effects of different hazards on the functional and operational components of a hospital.
Simulate a mass casualty incident addressing the roles and responsibilities of each component of HICS.
Discuss the basic requirements in the medical aspects of managing mass casualties
Prepare an outline for ensuring hospital disaster preparedness plans at various levels
| Duration | 23/10/2018 to 26/10/2018 |
| Organizer | SAARC Disaster Management Centre |
| Co-organizers | Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre (ADPC) |
| Venue Country | INDIA |
| Venue City | Gandhinagar |
| Venue | SAARC Disaster Management Centre (SDMC-IU), GIDM Campus, Raisan Village, Gandhinagar, Gujarat |
| Registration Deadline | 21/10/2018 |
| Language Of Event | Fluency in spoken and written English |
| Target Audience | Senior Officers from Health Services and related departments or Disaster Management department |
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Aim of the Program:
The program aims to highlight the need for mainstreaming the issues of Hospital safety and preparedness in the policies, strategies, programmes and making hospitals resilient and solve their purpose of providing aid for protecting hospitals from disasters and enhancing resilience in the wake of the threat of hazards be it natural or human-induced.