Health Emergencies Training- Review and Planning

Fig: Health Emergency as a Cycle
- Community
- Community resilience – risk communication in the schools, vulnerable population and community initiatives
- First Aid training to the volunteers
- Links to Community Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM)
2. Pre-hospital
- Systematic identification, training, Rostering and mobilization of volunteer community first responders, Community Emergency Medical Technicians (CEMT)
- Standardized and coordinated ambulance network
- Development and implementation of standardized referral protocols and pathways.
Declaration from Pre-hospital conference
3. Hospital
- Safety assessment of health facilities- Structural, Non-Structural and Functional
- Hospital preparedness and readiness for response to mass casualty and outbreak management
- Strengthening of Hub and satellite hospitals networks, communication and referral linkages
- Testing and updating of emergency response plans (Functional Activation)
- Establishing Emergency medical logistics warehouse and stockpiles
4. Post-hospital
- Facilitate access to information and services for persons with disabilities through vulnerable focal points
- Stockpiling / pre-positioning of assistive devices/mobility aids
- Setting up of ‘Step Down Care Facilities’ in or near hub and satellite hospitals including open space
- Referral linkages with hub and satellite hospital networks; specialized rehabilitation service providers, community based rehabilitation; and social protection agencies
Declaration from First Post hospital care for emergencies in Nepal
Some Glimpses of First National Conference on Post Hospital Care for Emergencies in Nepal