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"Floodwaters have engulfed large parts of New South Wales, with at least one
person dead and almost 50,000 evacuated after days of heavy rainfall in a
“one-in-500-year” flood event. The scale of the disaster is still unfolding and
affected communities will be recovering for some time to come.
One question worth asking is: how ready are our hospitals to cope when disaster
strikes?
A growing body of research, including our own, has looked at how hospitals
might contend with disasters like floods, bushfires, heatwaves, cyclones or
even mass injury events such as a stadium collapse. The answer? There’s room
for improvement.
Australia is already prone to natural disasters, which are expected to become
more frequent and severe as the climate changes.
Research around the world shows hospital administrators can better plan for how
they’d cope if a disaster or terrorist attack wiped out their hospital’s
capacity to function normally."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
