Nikolaos Degermetzoglou (Athens / GR), Evangelia Venetsanaki (Pireus / GR), Georgios Theocharopoulos (Athens / GR), Ioannis Mpountouris (Athens / GR), Efthimios Karybalis (Athens / GR)
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This study object is to search the role of new technologies during health crisis management from the Health Units in Coastal disasters. This presentation aims to review the existing technologies and to compare if they exist in the Hellenic and international guidelines and planning.
The existence of this kind of technologies seems more and more obligatory these past few years, since there is an increase in the number and severity of disastrous events and health crises.
Every society and public service needs to be armored against this kind of danger. First Response Systems, public hospitals and health units, even more so, as they are in the front line, absorbing the majority of consequences, created by mass casualty incidents.
Hellenic dogma and preparedness plans are based in the principles of management of a major event that were established in order to follow the Olympic Games of 2004 standards and specifications. Some improvements have been made from then, due to the flood and megafires disasters especially the last years, making the use of such technologies essential and bounden. Hence, new suggestions and additions to the already existing form are proposed in order to have a modern, drastic and effective total health crisis management.
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