Emergency medicine in Sri Lanka: The inevitable evolution to a new specialty
| Autor: | Chula Goonasekera, Shane Curran, Gim A Tan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Emergency Medical Services medicine.medical_specialty Government Emergency management business.industry Poison control Preparedness Emergency medicine Needs assessment Emergency Medicine Emergency medical services medicine Humans Female Natural disaster business Delivery of Health Care Needs Assessment Health policy Sri Lanka |
| Zdroj: | Emergency Medicine Australasia. 20:81-84 |
| ISSN: | 1742-6723 1742-6731 |
| Popis: | Sri Lanka is a low-income country with a relatively advanced, equitable and accessible health-care system offered to its 20 million populations free of charge through a national pro-poor health policy. Its weaknesses in emergency services, however, surfaced in 2004 when it faced the Tsunami, the worst natural disaster of the world of the 21st century. Since then, the local health community with the assistance of the government and foreign aid agencies have embarked on a path to establish emergency services, improve its preparedness for disaster management and establishment of emergency medicine training. The present article traces this path and how it is evolving in the country. |
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