The Iran Emergency Management

Center
Dealing with natural disasters
It is a well-known fact that the hospitals in Iran have been substantially
affected by natural disasters especially during this last decade. In order to
more effectively address the situation the health systems management in
Iran has taken some measures to better assess this as the safety especially
as it relates to hospitals. This has resulted in better management methods
which enables those hospitals to handle crisis situation significantly better.
Many elements relating to disaster control had been evaluated and some of
the things which have been looked at especially was those things which lead
to the most severe problems and how they can be better managed. Those
things have also been rated according to the level of potential damage which
they could cause and basically each of these things were categorized as
either very safe or of only average safety or in some cases not safe at all.
This has allowed government officials to put the whole issue relating to
disaster and crisis control into perspective and to gain a better understanding

of the ability of the government systems to deal with those crises. This study
has revealed that hospitals in Iran were not very efficient in dealing with
natural disasters.

This led to the implementation of new

guidelines
After all of the intensive research and analysis which had been conducted
several recommendations were made such as more effective implementation
and supervision of safety standards and more especially when new hospitals
are being constructed. Also there was decided to form a national committee
to oversee the safety of hospitals during disasters. There were also some
decisions made regarding ways in which to ensure that hospitals are better
prepared and there was especially looked at the structural soundness of
these hospitals and where necessary changes were made where they were
deemed to be cost effective and viable. These statistics which were
accumulated relating to hospitals and the way in which they deal with
disasters are expected to play a substantial role in the building of new
hospitals.

Almost no financial support

Ironically despite the gravity of the situation none of the people that were
involved in the assessment of hospitals nor any of the people that have been
used to study the collected data have received any financial support from the
government. The only support that has been provided came from their
disaster and emergency management center which is a division of the
Ministry of health and medical education and their contribution was to
provide the supervision on data collection and entry. The reality is that Iran is
a large country that is home to over 75 million people. It is especially
vulnerable to a variety of man-made as well as natural disasters which have
already caused a substantial amount of damage to many infrastructures and
it also caused a lot of deaths among the population. In fact many
international organizations are rating the possibility of a national disaster
striking Iran as high as eight out of 10. According to well-known statistics the
frequency of natural disasters in Iran has led to the loss of over 100,000 lives.

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