Establishment and perfection of a medical emergency relief system for regional disasters / 中华医院管理杂志

ABSTRACT

Based on the experience in providing emergency medical relief during the occurrence of the disastrous “Yunna” typhoon, the paper discusses the necessity of establishing a medical emergency relief system for regional disasters and ways of perfection. It is thus necessary to set up a multi level response mechanism for medical emergency relief; enhance the overall emergency response ability of the emergency medical service systems in case of disastrous events; work out the strategic layout of networks of medical emergency relief for regional disasters; optimize and rehearse in a planned way the crash programs for medical emergency relief for disasters; reinforce the role of the government in organizing and directing medical emergency relief for disasters; make overall arrangements of emergency relief manpower; and improve relief personnels personal sense and ability of self protection.