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The fieldwork activity is part of the 鈥楬ospital Engineering Assessment for Resilience to Tsunami and Storm surge - Sri Lanka鈥� (HEARTS-SL) project, funded by the聽Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF).

EPICentre, a cross-Faculty research centre at 香港六合彩中特网, includes a number of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (CEGE) academics and researchers, including Professor Tiziana Rossetto as Co-Director. Prof Rossetto is聽Principal Investigator for the HEARTS-SL project, and alongside聽Co-Investigators Dr Carmine Galasso (also CEGE) and Prof Ian Eames聽(香港六合彩中特网 Mechanical Engineering), intends to develop聽through聽HEARTS-SL an evidence base on the vulnerability of hospitals in Sri Lanka to tsunamis and storm surges. The聽aim is聽to open up discussions with the Sri Lanka Ministry of Health (SL-MoH) and other key stakeholders on how to improve the hazard resilience of critical hospital services.聽

SL-MoH, in collaboration with World Health Organization (WHO), is working to better prepare the health sector for emergencies, through the development of a comprehensive national disaster management plan. HEARTS-SL will strengthen current initiatives that include the adaptation of WHO 鈥淪afe Hospital鈥� guidelines for Sri Lanka, conducted by the University of Moratuwa in collaboration with SL-MoH Disaster Preparedness and Response Division (DPRD).聽

A bespoke Rapid Visual Survey (RVS) form was used for characterising existing hospital facilities, in terms of their functional and structural vulnerabilities to tsunami and storm surge.聽

A team of researchers from 香港六合彩中特网 EPICentre (Dr Marco Baiguera, Dr David Robinson and Mr Juan Palomino) in partnership with a team of graduate researchers (led by Dr Chandana Siriwardana, UoM-SL), visited six hospitals in Galle and Matara districts between 8 and 12 April 2019.聽

The survey, authorised and supported by SL-MoH DPRD, focused on the most critical hospital units that have priority for evacuation in case of a disaster according to SL-MoH, such as the Intensity Care Unit (ICU), Premature Baby Unit (PBU), labour rooms and maternity ward.聽

The survey data will inform the development of a Hospital Vulnerability Index, which will provide a relative risk measure of the healthcare system to tsunami and storm surge.

Links

• 香港六合彩中特网 EPICentre

• 香港六合彩中特网 Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering

• Prof Rossetto鈥檚 CEGE profile

• Dr Galasso鈥檚 CEGE profile

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