Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Aims: To evaluate the level of safety in disasters of a number of strategic and campaign-level military hospitals.Subjects and methods: The surveys were conducted at 9 strategic and campaign-level military hospitals. The hospitals were instructed to establish their own assessment teams and follow the steps outlined in the toolkit for evaluating safe military hospitals in disasters.Results: The structural and non-structural groups had the highest proportion of criteria fully met (85.78%), while the lowest was the group managing operations in emergencies and disasters (38.00%). Regarding the level of safety in disasters, 4 hospitals (44.44%) achieved a high safety level, 5 hospitals (55.56%) achieved a medium level, and no hospital achieved a low safety level.Conclusion: It is necessary to improve the level of safety in disaster military hospitals, especially the criteria related to the management of activities in emergency and disaster situations.
Source: Tạp chí Y học Thảm hoạ và Bỏng
Authors: Nhu Lam Nguyen, Tien Dung Nguyen, Dinh Hung Tran, Minh Duc Ngo, Quang Phu Tran, Thai Ngoc Minh Nguyen, Thanh Chung Nguyen, Quoc Chieu Le
Language: English
Subfield: Emergency Medical Services
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4408039647