Crisis Management Aspects of Bam Catastrophic Earthquake: Review Article

Sadeghi‐Bazargani, Homayoun; Azami-Aghdash, Saber; Kazemi, Abdolhassan; Ziapour, Behrad

doi:10.15171/hpp.2015.002

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“…Despite the sufficiency in composition, the quantity and quality of the human resources participating in incident management, the poor organization of calling and the distribution of specialist individuals and specialized teams, absence of a process in identifying the forces and their self-sufficiency were among the problems of manpower management in this earthquake. According to the findings of this study, these problems also were reported in the Bam earthquake [19,20].…”

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confidence: 75%

Kermanshah Health Care Services: A Lesson Learned From Iran’s Recent Earthquake

Khankeh

Kolivand

Jam

et al. 2018

Health Emerg. Disast.

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Background: Earthquake has always been a serious threat for humans' health and properties. In this regard, the most urgent services for people after the occurrence of incidents and disasters, especially earthquake, is health services. Iran due to its geographic location along the Alpine-Himalayan belt is vulnerable to the occurrence of earthquakes with magnitudes of 6 and 7 on the Richter scale. Prevention of earthquake is impossible; however, it is important to use the lessons learned to reduce the physical and financial damages in similar future incidents. This study was conducted with the objective of examining the lessons learned by the workgroup of Health and Treatment in response to 7.3 magnitude Kermanshah Province earthquake. Materials and Methods: In This case study, the triangulation method including interview, participatory observation and expert panel in three sections of prehospital emergency services, medical center, and health and treatment centers, was used to assess the performance of health and treatment workgroup in response to Kermanshah earthquake. For this purpose, in addition to recording the information resulting from observation by the researchers, the reports related to EOC (Emergency Operations Center) of Kermanshah and expert assessors were examined. Furthermore, interviews were conducted with experts, directors, commanders and responsible authorities in the field of incident and the State Emergency Organization central headquarters' staff. Finally, the collected data were analyzed. Results: Based on the study findings, the positive points were the rapid response by the Emergency and Health system organization, effective command on the scene of incident from the first moments, fine management of human resources and the injured within reasonable time, dispatching more than 7350 injured people to treatment centers in less than 20 hours, carrying out 1980 successful operations in less than 3 days, establishing and running 6 mobile hospitals in less than 12 hours, complete supply of blood and blood derivatives, medicines, equipments and specialist force, and sustainability of health and treatment services in less than 24 hours. However, the most important problems were deficiency in protocol, absence of special assessment team and failure to use rapid assessment national standard, lack of national response plan in crisis management and the high vulnerability of hospitals' infrastructures. Conclusion: Although in this earthquake, thanks to positive steps taken by health and treatment workgroup, great progress was observed in response operations in the area of health; based on the study findings, there are challenges that the health system should resolve in order to improve health services in incidents and disasters. Developing the emergency organization and especially emergency air service, advancement of the status of the State Crisis Management Organization, accurate planning for aid services such as temporary sheltering and provision of latrines and bath and establishing mobile hospitals...

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 75%

Kermanshah Health Care Services: A Lesson Learned From Iran’s Recent Earthquake

Khankeh

Kolivand

Jam

et al. 2018

Health Emerg. Disast.

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“…The data collection tool was a standard hospital emergency response checklist developed by WHO [16] consisting of 90 items and 9 subscales of command and control (7 items), communication (9 items), safety and security (11 items), triage (10 items), surge capacity (13 items), continuity of essential services (8 items), human resources (15 items), logistics and supply management (10 items), and postdisaster recovery (7 items). The Persian version of this checklist has been developed in another study, and its reliability has been reported acceptable [17]. The items are rated on a 3-point scale from 1= due for review to 3= in progress, and 5= completed.…”

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Evaluate Management Performance and the Degree of Readiness Hospital Emergency in Critical Situations

Bahranifard

Rahzani

Rad

et al. 2021

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Background: Hospitals, especially their emergency departments, are among the first health systems affected by accidents and disasters. Because of its nature and obligation to provide the highest quality services, this department should have protocols for coordination and interaction with other departments and be fully prepared in critical situations. This study aims to evaluate the disaster preparedness of the Emergency Department of Shahid Motahari Hospital in Isfahan Province, Iran. Materials and Methods: This research is an applied descriptive study conducted in Shahid Motahari Hospital in Fooladshahr City, Isfahan Province, Iran. The study data were collected using the Persian version of the World Health Organization’s Hospital Emergency Response Checklist completed through interview and document analysis. The checklist consists of 90 items and 9 domains, including command and control (7 items), communications (9 items), safety and security (11 items), triage (10 items), surge capacity (13 items), continuity of essential services (8 items), human resources (15 items), logistics and supply management (10 items) and post-disaster recovery (7 items). The obtained data were analyzed in SPSS using descriptive statistics over 4 months. Results: The disaster preparedness of the Emergency Department of the Hospital was poor in the human resources domain and good in the communication domain. Conclusion: The disaster preparedness of the study hospital is at a moderate level. Planning and implementation of practical measures such as holding crisis management courses, establishing a crisis management team, estimating necessary resources, changing the structure, providing human resources for more accurate control and ease of service delivery, maintaining and rapid repairing of equipment, timely triage, and retrofitting hospitals can play an effective role in improving the disaster preparedness of the study emergency department.

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“…The Bam earthquake was one of the most devastating earthquakes in Iran [ 1 ]. Measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale, it struck the city of Bam in Kerman Province, south-eastern Iran, for 10 s on the 26th of December 2003 at 5.26 A.M. More than 40,000 people were killed and about 30,000 others were injured, nearly 20,000 homes were destroyed and more than 45,000 people were left homeless [ 2 , 3 ].…”

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Latent classes of posttraumatic stress disorder among survivors of the Bam Earthquake after 17 years

et al. 2022

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Background The purpose of this study was to identify latent classes of the severity of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among the survivors of the earthquake in Bam, south-eastern Iran, 17 years after the disaster. The most influential predictor variables of PTSD classes were also investigated. Methods Eight hundred survivors of the Bam earthquake who were at least four years old in that disaster were selected by multistage sampling. The PTSD Checklist-Civilian Version was used. Latent class analysis was performed to identify subgroups of people with different PTSD symptom profiles. Latent class regression analysis was used to explore the influence of demographic and traumatic variables on each class membership. Results We found three latent classes of PTSD, with the following profiles emerging: Low Symptom (56.6% of the participants), Moderate Symptom (23.5%), and Severe Symptom (19.9%). Old age [OR = 2.20, 95% CI = (1.46, 3.32)], physical injury [OR = 1.95, 95% CI = (1.24, 3.06)], being trapped under the rubble [OR = 1.81, 95% CI = (1.15, 2.86)], and death of a family member [OR = 1.86, 95% CI = (1.12, 3.09)] were positive risk factors for PTSD and increased the chance of being in classes having more severe symptoms. Having a high educational level was a negative risk factor [OR = 0.86, 95% CI = (0.67, 1.11)]. Conclusions The severity of PTSD 17 years after the earthquake shows that natural disasters such as earthquakes have long-term consequences, and earthquake survivors must have psychological support and long term health care. After any catastrophic earthquake, governments should establish psychology and psychotherapy centers for earthquake victims, and these centers should support earthquake victims for a sufficiently long time.

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Crisis Management Aspects of Bam Catastrophic Earthquake: Review Article

Cited by 12 publications

References 12 publications

Kermanshah Health Care Services: A Lesson Learned From Iran’s Recent Earthquake

Kermanshah Health Care Services: A Lesson Learned From Iran’s Recent Earthquake

Evaluate Management Performance and the Degree of Readiness Hospital Emergency in Critical Situations

Latent classes of posttraumatic stress disorder among survivors of the Bam Earthquake after 17 years

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