Prof. Dr. Teodoro Javier Herbosa Emergency Medicine

Prof. Dr. Teodoro Javier Herbosa
Emergency Medicine Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
and
University of the Philippines, Manila
Board Member, World Association of Disaster and Emergency Medicine
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Hospitals Safe from Disasters
• Hospitals should remain functional after
disasters
• Often, hospital leaders in Asia adopt an
evacuation
policy
aftermath
an
earthquake
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Hospitals Safe from Disasters
Hospitals are not like schools, office buildings,
hotels.
Hospitals must function after an earthquake.
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Disaster Risk Reduction
Structural Engineers & Physicians with
vast disaster risk reduction experiences
in health systems in the Asia
Training module for hospitals capacity
building to reduce disaster risks
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Objective
Discuss a course called HOSPITAL
PREPAREDNESS FOR EMERGENCIES (HOPE)
Trains staff on rapid assessment tools for
structural damages
functional collapse of hospitals
emergency response therein
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Course Development
Asia – high risk disasters
- lack of advanced Risk Reduction through capacity
buidling & emergency management
- burden on hospitals to cope w/ mass casualties
1998 HOPE Course developed for:
Philippines
India
Indonesia
Nepal
Bangladesh (2003)
Pakistan (2007)
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All 6 countries - RISK for earthquakes
What is HOPE?
32 hours (intensive) 4 days
enhance hospital preparedness
capacity and emergency response
structural, non-structural, and
functional concerns
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23 Lessons & 7 Exercises 1st ed.
Overview of Disasters & Health •
Disaster Risk Management
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Seismology Concepts
•
Structural & Non structural
•
Assessments of Hospitals
•
Operational & Functional
Components of Hospitals
•
Emergency Department
•
Mass Casualty management
•
Triage
Resuscitation & Disaster
Medical Care
HEICS
Hospital Disaster Planning
Mgt of the Dead
Psychosocial issues
Mgt of Resources
Return to Normal
Operations
7 Exercises/Table tops
Simulations/RolePlay
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HOPE Course Aims
To enhance hospital based preparedness and
response.
To coordinate engineers, clinical &
administrative leaders in a hospital based
disaster risk management approach:
Principles of disaster risk management
Working together to make steps toward preparing
each hospital to respond to disasters and MCI's
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HOPE Course Objectives
Performance Objectives:
By the end of the course, the participant will be able to:
Conduct a vulnerability assessment of the hospital
Develop a hospital preparedness and response plan
Conduct a disaster response
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Program for Enhancement of
Emergency Response-PEER
Principal Courses
· MFR
· CSSR
· HOPE
Instructor Workshops
· TFI
· MFRIW
· CSSRIW
HOPEIW
Subsidiary Course
· Canine SAR
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Relationship of PEER
Courses
CSSR
Extraction
Disaster
HOPE Hospital
MFR Medical first responder
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Development
•Funding - USAID OFDA
•ADPC
•curriculum by Asians for
Asians
•NSET
•JHU (CIEDRS) - course review
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adpc
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Implementation
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