WPRO EHA reviews safe hospitals project 2-4 March 2011 |
9 March 2011 – The Emergency and Humanitarian Action (EHA) unit of the WHO
Regional Office for the Western Pacific (WPRO), in partnership with the
University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU), conducted the midterm
review of the second phase of the Hospitals Safe from Disasters (HSFD) campaign
on 2-4 March 2011 in Manila.
The second phase of the project aims to expand mapping and assessment of
different levels of hospitals in small and medium sized cities, integrate HSFD
concepts in national development plans and policies, and support further
development and adaptation of tools and resources. This will mainstream disaster
risk reduction in the health sector within the framework of the global campaign
for safer cities in 2010-2011.
More information on WPRO Safe hospitals project
HSFD Project documents |
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One Million Safe Schools and Hospitals Initiative |
Sixty-third World Health Assembly |
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Will health services function when most needed? Experiences from recent earthquakes
19 May 2010, Geneva, Switzerland
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Kathmandu Declaration on Protecting Health Facilities from Disasters |
Health Ministers from WHO's 11 Member States in
South-East Asia have committed themselves to making health facilities more resilient by adopting the Kathmandu Declaration on Protecting Health Facilities from Disasters. This declaration was adopted at the conclusion of the Twenty-seventh Health Minister’s Meeting in
Kathmandu in September 2009.
Read the declaration |
Theme title: Sustaining Healthcare Facilities Performance during Natural Disasters
Background and Scope
Recent statistics suggest an increase in natural disasters around the world due to climate change and global warming. Although the annual number of fatalities has reduced since the start of the twentieth century, the number of affected people requiring immediate treatment has increased. The discontinuity of medical services in such events has encouraged the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) appeal to not let hospitals be victims of emergencies and it launched a global campaign, Hospitals Safe from Disasters. The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction held in Geneva 16-19 June 2009 concluded by calling for a 50 percent reduction in disaster related deaths by 2015. |
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