Making Your Hospital Safe: What YOU can do

Everyone has an important role to play in making their hospital safe.

Individuals

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• Spread the word about the need for safe hospitals

• Find out how safe your local health facilities are: are they disaster resistant buildings? Do they keep non-structural facilities secured? Do they have regular staff training for emergencies?

• Lobby your local political representative to ensure your local health facilities are safe.

Governments

• Legislate, and enforce policies that protect hospitals during disasters, such as implementation of building codes.

• Invest in building health facilities that are on a safe site, designed and constructed correctly, and has emergency preparedness and care as an integral part of its functioning.

• Carry out safety assessments of existing health facilities.

• Create greater awareness among the public for the need to make heath facilities safe and functional in emergencies for health, social and economic reasons.