Abstract
At 8:02 on 20 April 2013, an earthquake of magnitude 7.0 struck the Lushan area of Sichuan province, China. The affected population was 1.99 million, spread over 19 cities involving 115 countries. Over 458,000 people were resettled urgently (http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 2013Yaanearthquake). The number of those injured and killed is reported to be 13,000 and 196 by the time 12:00, 26 April (http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2013-04-27/090126968052.shtml). The decision to set out an emergency medical rescue team was taken at a national level the Ministry of Health, and the immediate response was funded by The General Hospital of the Chinese People’s Armed Police Forces. The request to the medical team came through 2 h after the earthquake, and the team arrived at Yaan People’s Hospital with medicine and equipment 14 h later. This paper describes the team’s experience during the immediate aftermath of the earthquake and the following 8 days.
Highlights
At 8:02 on 20 April 2013, an earthquake of magnitude 7.0 struck the Lushan area of Sichuan province, China
In an effort to learn from this catastrophic experience, in 2010, the Ministry of Health, organized medical rescue teams specializing in disaster medicine, called national emergency medical rescue teams (NEMRTs)
By the end of 2012, there have been 22 NEMRTs scattered in 20 provinces and cities
Summary
At 8:02 on 20 April 2013, an earthquake of magnitude 7.0 struck the Lushan area of Sichuan province, China. Over 458,000 people were resettled urgently (http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 2013Yaanearthquake). The number of those injured and killed is reported to be 13,000 and 196 by the time 12:00, 26 April (http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2013-04-27/090126968052.shtml). The decision to set out an emergency medical rescue team was taken at a national level the Ministry of Health, and the immediate response was funded by The General Hospital of the Chinese People’s Armed Police Forces. This paper describes the team’s experience during the immediate aftermath of the earthquake and the following 8 days. This is a special project of National Health Industry Research (201302003). The team members of this project are Jingchen Zheng, Huiliang Liu, Kai Zhang, Jinghong Chen, Wei Ren, Jun Yang, Chengxin Han, Mei Xi, Chuan Jiang, Chengwei Zhang, Yaohui Feng, Lizhi Ma, Weiqiang Zhang, Ruijing Meng, Ying Cheng, Fulang Jing, Han Zhang and Jiangpeng Cui
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