Organizing an Effective Hospital Disaster Committee

Summary

The disaster committee is a mechanism for educating health care workers for the unpredictable consequences of serious natural and manmade calamities. Planning is the key, and the disaster committee must strive toward this challenging objective.

A persistent and positive attitude can make the difference between the disaster committee's success of failure. By using some very old principles of good management and organization, and adding some new concepts, a disaster committee can be an effective and worthwhile venture.