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(P1-35) Adapting a Humanitarian Organization for Disaster Response, Operation Smile in Haiti, 2010

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2011

R. Zoraster ,
M. Beers  and
T. Crabtree
R. Zoraster
Affiliation:
Honolulu, United States of America
M. Beers
Affiliation:
Operation Smile, Norfolk, United States of America
T. Crabtree
Affiliation:
Honolulu, United States of America
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Abstract

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Background

Operation Smile International (OSI) is a Non-Government Organization (NGO) with experience providing surgical care throughout the world. OSI has vast logistical capacity, skilled and credential providers, and international relationships. Disaster response had been considered by OSI in the past, but never initiated. However, the magnitude of the Haiti disaster, coupled with request from Haitian OS Partners led to the initial disaster response of the OSI organization.

Discussion and Observations

This presentation will: (1) Describe the considerations and rationale that led OSI to this intervention. (2) Discuss the process of developing a disaster response within a relatively short period of time. (3) The response itself, and (4) Present how the lessons learned will be adapted to future OSI capacity and planning.

Type
Poster Abstracts 17th World Congress for Disaster and Emergency Medicine
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 26 , Supplement S1 , May 2011 , pp. s110
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2011