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Ukranian's Disaster Medicine Team Mission to India following the Earthquake of 2001

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

George G. Roshchin  and
Oleg V. Mazurenko
George G. Roshchin
Affiliation:
Ukrainian Emergency and Disaster Medicine Center, Kyiv Medical Academy of PostGraduate Education, Department of Disaster Medicine, Kyiv, Ukraine
Oleg V. Mazurenko*
Affiliation:
Ukrainian Emergency and Disaster Medicine Center, Kyiv Medical Academy of PostGraduate Education, Department of Disaster Medicine, Kyiv, Ukraine
*
Assistant Professor of Disaster Medicine, Kyiv Medical Academy of Post-Graduate Education, Department of Disaster Medicine, Bratislavskaya Street 3, Kyiv 253 166 UKRAINE, E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

This article describes the basic principles around establishing a Disaster Medicine Camp and the organization of the Ukrainian Disaster Medicine Mobile Hospital, which provided medical aid to victims of the 2001 earthquake in India. All of the information was obtained through direct observation and estimates based on empirical data gathered in the field.

Keywords

disaster medicineearthquakehospitalIndiateamUkraine
Type
Brief Report
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , September 2002 , pp. 163 - 166
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2002

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