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(d)
Which one of the following is an important component of disaster preparedness?
(a) Conducting Mock drills, training and practice
(b) Impleinenting the disaster management plan
(C) Setting up of Medical camps
(d) Activating the emergency operations
Which one of the following is a slow onset hazard?
(a) Volcanic eruption
(b) Floods
(c) Lancs ides
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Answer 1

Answer:

Disasters have an uncanny ability to bring to the forefront vulnerabilities of systems, structures,

processes and people which in turn cause large scale damages; and hospitals are no

exception to this rule.

In India, experiences from the Gujarat earthquake of 2001, the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004

and the Kashmir Earthquake of 2005 have shown that disasters affect not only the population

but also health facilities. Particularly when the Children’s Hospital in Jammu collapsed; in the

city of Bhuj, where thousands of people died and the civil hospital was reduced to a heap of

debris when it was needed the most. The fire in AMRI Hospital in Kolkata, where more than 90

people died, reminded us that it is not simply the structural resilience but also operational

resilience of hospitals that needs to be addressed, if we wish to reduce the impact of disasters

on hospitals.

Both these instances of the civil hospital collapsing in Bhuj and the fire in AMRI Hospital in

Kolkata, provided evidence based lessons of the underlying vulnerabilities that cause hospitals

to get affected by disasters, which may be broadly grouped as follows:

 Inadequate or non-compliance of structural elements of hospitals to building codes

and other safety norms which result in the failure of hospital structures and their

component non-structural elements

 Absence of an operational Hospital Disaster Management Plan;

 Lack of planning and preparedness to respond to disasters;

 Inadequate or complete lack of internal and external communication; and

 Lack of networking amongst hospitals.

As a result, when hospitals are affected by disasters, the repercussions are three dimensional

– health, social and economic.

Answer 2

Answer:

a) conducting mock drills, training and practice...