Disaster Preparedness: Disaster Management

Disaster Preparedness Paper

A disaster can be a significant natural disaster or a man-made event that overwhelms the affected region and necessitate both medical care assistance and Federal public health assistance. Health care facilities like hospitals, nursing homes, ambulatory care centers and other medical departments including laboratory and pharmacy are rather severely damaged or overwhelmed by the volume of affected victims during an internal or external disaster. Sometimes, facilities are also affected by other resources and lack utilities like power, water or sewer. In case of massive disasters, the demand for the medical supplies and drugs including trained medical personnel’s increases and the health care organization sometimes fall short to supply all demands. Health care managers and the disaster operational managers’ work together to meet the needs of those affected by disaster and resolve the impact that they impose by being resourceful (Boston University School of Medicine [BUSM], n.d.).

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Importance of pre-event planning and preparation before disaster: The medical staffs and the disaster management department has to be well prepared, should have proper training and they should be able to identify, evaluate and document resources. The hospital should be prepared with emergency preservation and recovery plans. The setting should be able to integrate the disaster planning with the general planning successfully (Office of Historic Preservation California [A.GOV], 2015).

2. Importance of needs assessment before implementation: A needs assessment will serve mainly two primary purposes. First, it helps in identifying priorities and plans. Second, it can support outside assistance from other private and government agencies depending on the magnitude of the disaster. Needs assessment also help in assessing types and number of victims, their age and type of community or society involved? This makes the planning and resource development much