Hazard Mitigation and Emergency Response – BMSS Bangladesh

Name of the activity: Hazard Mitigation and Emergency Response

Country/NMO: BMSS Bangladesh

Program: Emergency, Disaster Risk & Humanitarian Action

Contact information: contact [email protected] to get in touch with the Activity Coordinator

Type of the activity: First-time Activity

Category: Capacity Building

Focus area: Disaster resilience (including prevention, preparedness and response), Access to care in disaster/emergency contexts

Sustainable Development Goals addressed: SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-Being), SDG 15 (Life on Land)

Problem statement:

Due to huge population & urbanisation, both unintentional(RTA,Natural disasters)& intentional injuries(violence, conflict) increase daily.More than 80% of the population is potentially exposed to floods, earthquakes & droughts,& more than 70% to cyclones.Health facilities & rapid response are not adequate nor organized enough.According to DGHS, it is found that injury patients comprise more than one fifth of all admission & half of all surgical beds.

Target groups:

• Medical students
• Healthcare Students
• Doctors

Beneficiaries:

• General population
• Medical students
• Healthcare Students
• Doctors

Objectives:

To educate at least 30 medical students about first aid,triage and ATLS measures by expert health professionals of Dhaka Medical College in a 2 hour long offline workshop arranged on 2 days across a week.

To sensitise at least 20 school students in flood prone areas about natural disasters and response in times of disaster by previously trained local officers of Satkhira Medical College LC in a 2 hour long offline workshop.

Indicators of Success:

80% of the students will be able to illustrate their understanding of clinical skills required to manage the emergency patients in the emergency situations as assessed by situation simulation activities at the end of the workshops.

At the end, 90% of the medical students participating in this workshop will get an idea about natural disasters and what we need to do at that time, evident by their performance in the simulated disaster situation during the workshop.

Methodology:

Part 1:- Workshop on First Aid

An offline workshop will be arranged with at least 30 medical students which will be facilitated by expert health care professionals of the Department of Casualty of DMCH. The duration of the workshop will be 2 hours. The students will be divided into 2 groups, each group having 15 participants which will be facilitated by moderators.

The workshop will include 

different first aid maneuvers during emergency, basic dressing, immobilization, CPR, management of hemostasis and so on.

Part 2 : Workshop on Triage and ATLS:

An offline workshop will be arranged with at least  30 medical students on DMC campus which will be facilitated by expert health care professionals of the Department of Orthopaedics of DMCH. The duration of the workshop will be 2 hours. The students will be divided into 2 groups, each group having 15 participants which will be facilitated by moderators.

Plans for evaluation:

Part 1: Workshop on First Aid

Pre evaluation form :

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Post evaluation form : 

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External collaborations:

none