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Looking for model plans to address health needs of victims of disasters. i.e pre and post?


Examples of health needs may be individuals depedent on certain medications...to ensure that they continue to get the medications after evacuation. Diabetes, asthma etc are issues that come to mind.

the question is being asked from the perspective of emergency planning preparedness to ensure that the "health needs" of disaster victims continue to be met uninterupted pre/post evacuation and pre/post disaster

You should be looking at FEMA or other government agencies that do such planning. And of course, I would not consider any of the Army Corp of Engineers plans since they prepared the New Orleans dikes and spill ways!

We lived where Katrina hit and I can tell you that is really a hard one. Mainly have the quickly ability to obtain needed have your people red cross certified. Have all Dr's be able to come and help even if they are not red cross certified. Get medications such as insulin etc. and have a generator maybe two that work to keep a few lights and refrigerator running. Have a tent . Be able to fly these all to the nearest airport have a truck there ready to take them to as close as you can get to the disaster site. Also carry extra gasoline and water and MRI's with you. Once you see a disaster is going on get your stuff together and go as soon as you can. Also carry a chain saw to get through roads. Set up at a airport or train terminal or some high profile place. Tell the rescue crews to bring those people to you . Also have cots and blankets. Also have baby formula and bottles and diapers ready for the little ones. Be able to fly the sick out to out lying hospitals that were not affected by the disaster.

Potassium tablets are also a good thing. Some people need to take it daily to keep their heart from having arrythmias.

You will need to be able to transport patients from your location or hospitals to airports to fly them out or to take them to near by hospitals that are not affected. You will need communication. Cell phones were useless as were land line. You need a walky talky or something like the miltray has. You need some short term care units / tents and Drs and nurses to handle them. You should even have a field hospital that can do surgery and equiptment to stabilize people and fly them out. Maybe a medical helo too. Just read all the Katrina horror stories and talk to the Drs that live through it. No communication was the worst part. People having to call their own out of town families to get them to come to the hospitals to help them out. Drs having to get a boat and gun to get their patients out of harms way and transfer them to other hospitals via planes to houston.

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