Disaster Management among El-Monira Hospital Health Providers

Abstract

he main objective of a hospital emergency/disaster plan is to optimally prepare the staff and institutional resources of the hospital for effective performance in different disaster situations. The hospital disaster plans should address not only the mass casualties which may result from mass casualty incident MCI that has occurred away from the hospital, but should also address the situation where the hospital itself has been affected by a disaster – fire, explosion, flooding or earthquake (Kearns et al., 2014). Aim of the study: The aim of this study was to assess Disaster Management among El Monira Hospital Health care providers through the following: • Assessing Health care providers' level of knowledge regarding disaster management. • Assessing Health care providers' practices regarding disaster management. Research questions • What are the levels of knowledge of health care providers regarding disaster management? • What are the levels of practices of health care providers regarding disaster management?