Evaluation result of disaster safety status for Military Hospitals

Nguyen Nhu Lam1, Nguyen Tien Dung1, Tran Dinh Hung1, Ngo Minh Duc1, Tran Quang Phu1, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Minh1, Nguyen Thanh Chung1, Le Quoc Chieu1,
1 Le Huu Trac National Burn Hospital

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Aims: To evaluate the level of safety in disasters of a number of strategic and campaign-level military hospitals.
Subjects and methods: The surveys were conducted at 9 strategic and campaign-level military hospitals. The hospitals were instructed to establish their own assessment teams and follow the steps outlined in the toolkit for evaluating safe military hospitals in disasters.
Results: The structural and non-structural groups had the highest proportion of criteria fully met (85.78%), while the lowest was the group managing operations in emergencies and disasters (38.00%). Regarding the level of safety in disasters, 4 hospitals (44.44%) achieved a high safety level, 5 hospitals (55.56%) achieved a medium level, and no hospital achieved a low safety level.
Conclusion: It is necessary to improve the level of safety in disaster military hospitals, especially the criteria related to the management of activities in emergency and disaster situations.

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