Challenges of the management of mass casualty: lessons learned from the Jos crisis of 2001

Conclusion: Mass casualties from disasters that disrupt organized societal mechanisms for days can pose significant challenges to the best of institutional disaster response plans. In the situation that we experienced, our disaster plan was impractical initially because it failed to factor in such a prolongation of both crisis and response. We recommend that institutional disaster response plans should incorporate provisions for the challenges we have enumerated and factor in peculiarities that would emanate from the need for a prolonged response.
Source: World Journal of Emergency Surgery - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Source Type: research