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MCI (Mass Casualty Incident) Response Support for Palestine Refugee Hospitals in Lebanon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2023

Mitsuru Masuda*
Affiliation:
JRCS Wakayama Medical Center, Wakayama, Indonesia
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Abstract

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Introduction:

The Japanese Red Cross Society has been supporting MCI response support for Palestine hospitals in Lebanon since 2018.

Method:

It was started from a hospital as a single topic in a one-year ER trauma course, which was combined with an ER triage course. In the next hospital it was revised into not only a theological lecture course but also a field triage training course with pre-hospital volunteers. As a result, when the Beirut explosion happened in 2020, the first hospital could accept more than 50 green patients at once, and the second one sent a pre-hospital team to do triage at the scene showing that training courses were useful in a real MCI case .

Results:

At this time, support is being provided in a new hospital by making use of these experiences. A current report will be available when this association is held.

Conclusion:

MCI response support for refugee camps is improving through trial and error, which would have much in common with other MCI responses in many countries and areas.

Type
Poster Presentations
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine