Abstract
The article deals with the evacuation of persons from hospital bed wards in high-rise buildings of medical facilities. It presents a proposal for a systems approach and provides a subsequent supportive methodology and tools for planning and implementation of the evacuation of persons with disabilities, which is based on data collection and analysis.
Highlights
The issue of evacuation of persons with disabilities from selected hospital wards presents a multifunctional problem which is significantly extensive and complex
Constant on-site presence of staff members to be able to carry out the evacuation of persons;
Individual points were evaluated according to the knowledge and information about evacuation plans of the Faculty Hospital Brno (FH Brno)
Summary
The issue of evacuation of persons with disabilities from selected hospital wards presents a multifunctional problem which is significantly extensive and complex. No complete methodology, which would serve the medical facilities to develop their evacuation plans for high-rise buildings, has been created in the Czech Republic. It is necessary to mention that medical facilities due to their typical character of operation create specific positive and negative factors, which have impact on the evacuation of persons [2]. Demanding requirements for construction and operation of medical facilities from the point of view of fire safety and protection of population (legal and technical standards);. On December 31 2013, there were 188 hospitals with a capacity of 56 807 beds (including 47 033 acute care beds, 7 652 beds in after care and 2 122 new-born beds) registered in the Czech Republic [3] - Fig. 1. On January 1 2016, the Catalogue of risks of the FH Brno contained 155 risks; the catalogue is constantly updated and extended once in a period of 2 years
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