Author:
Lichtenberger Paola,Miskin Ian N.,Dickinson Gordon,Schwaber Mitchell J.,Ankol Omer E.,Zervos Marcus,Campo Rafael E.,Doblecki-Lewis Susanne,Déry Mark Alain,Munoz-Price L. Silvia
Abstract
After 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.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Microbiology (medical),Epidemiology
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