Rapid Assessment for Resilient Recovery and ... - GFDRR

Strategy for Short-term Recovery (up to 6 months)
• Restore affected health facilities to ensure people’s access to healthcare services
• Focus should shift from general emergency distribution to targeted services
aligned with specific needs of different population groups. Particular attention
should be given to the following groups:
o Pregnant women, lactating mothers, newborns, children under five,
immuno-depressed persons;
o Patients with chronic diseases, including the disabled and the elderly,
whose pre-existing conditions are further aggravated (or whose drug
adherence was compromised) by the lack of access to drugs and health
services during the floods; and
o Patients who are under anti-retroviral therapy and DOTS (TB), particularly
for those whose drug adherence was compromised by the lack of access to
health services during the floods
• Review location of expensive medical equipment on the first or basement floors,
and consider the possibility to move such equipment to upper floors, where
possible.
o Each hospital in flood-prone areas should prepare an emergency plan for
moving expensive medical equipment during floods; and
o It should be noted that some heavy medical equipment, including X-ray
machines and laboratory equipment, may still be needed on the first floor,
e.g. to serve accident-related patients in the emergency ward. As skilled
technicians (not hospital staff) are needed to mobilize X-ray machines, and
these skilled technicians may not be available during the critical days before
the flood, hospitals in flood-prone areas should consider preparing appropriate
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