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Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol · Sep 2010
Infection control in field hospitals after a natural disaster: lessons learned after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
- Paola Lichtenberger, Ian N Miskin, Gordon Dickinson, Mitchell J Schwaber, Omer E Ankol, Marcus Zervos, Rafael E Campo, Susanne Doblecki-Lewis, Mark Alain Déry, and L Silvia Munoz-Price.
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida 33136, USA.
- Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2010 Sep 1; 31 (9): 951-7.
AbstractAfter the January 12, 2010, earthquake in Haiti, Project Medishare and the University of Miami organized, built, and staffed a 200-bed field hospital (the University of Miami Hospital in Haiti [UMHH]) on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince. We describe the operational challenges of providing a safe environment at the UMHH. Furthermore, we compared how these issues were addressed at this ad hoc hospital with how they were addressed at the field hospital of the Israel Defense Force, a fully deployable hospital with an organization fine-tuned as a result of prior disaster situations, also in Haiti.
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