In Disaster management, all are true except:-
- Response is a post-disaster phase .It is a pa of Recovery phase after a disaster. STAGES OF A DISASTER CYCLE Disasters mitigation: Measures designed to either prevent hazard from causing emergency or to lessen the effects of emergency Disasters preparedness Disasters impact Disasters response: search rescue & first aid, Field care, Triage, Identification of dead Stage of health and medical relief: Disasters containment Rehabilitation: Water supply, sanitation and personal hygiene, food safety, vector control. TRIAGE- carried out at the site of the disaster. done in order to determine transpoation priority, and admission to hospital or treatment centre. COLOR CODING RED YELLOW GREEN BLACK high priority treatment or transfer medium priority ambulatory patients dead/moribund patients POST DISASTER PHASE (PDP) M/C disease repoed is acute gastroenteritis M/C vitamin deficiency - vitamin A (B3, C) Vaccine in PDP - All are C/I except measles.
Response in pre-disaster phase
Mitigation before a disasters strikes
Maximum moality is repoed from hydrological disasters
Most common disease repoed after disaster is gastroenteritis
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