LI Qun 1# , WU Xiukun 2# , BAI Hong 2 , CHEN Hong 3 , YANG Dingjun 4 , LI Shizhou 5 , DUAN Liangsong 6 , ZHU Ruiquan 7 , ZHU Haiyang 8 , YAO Jianyi 1 , XU Zhen 1 , MAO Suling 9 , YANG Weizhong 1
  • 1 Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention; 2 Emergency Center of Pingdingshan City; 3 Wenchuan County Center for Disease Control and Prevention; 4 Dujiangyan People’s Hospital, Sichuan Province; 5 The First People’s Hospital of Chenzhou City; 6 Chenzhou Prefectural Center for Disease Control and Prevention; 7 Red Cross Blood Center of Beijing; 8 Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Ningxia Hui Nationality Autonomous Region;
YANG Weizhong, Email: yangwz@chinacdc.cn
Wenchuan earthquake; Snow disaster; Medical rescue; Energy interruption; Infrastructure damage
10.7507/1672-2531.20090207
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Energy interruption and infrastructure damage are the common characteristic between the snow disaster occurred in some southern provinces of China and the 5?12 Wenchuan earthquake in China in 2008. This paper summaries the effects on medical and health institutions caused by interruption of energy flow and damaged infrastructure, shares the preparation and response practices, experience, and lessons of medical disasters, and gives suggestions about how to prepare and response for medical and health institutions when energy flow is interrupted and infrastructure is damaged.

Citation： LI Qun,WU Xiukun,BAI Hong,CHEN Hong,YANG Dingjun,LI Shizhou,DUAN Liangsong,ZHU Ruiquan,ZHU Haiyang,YAO Jianyi,XU Zhen,MAO Suling,YANG Weizhong. Preparation and Response of Medical and Health Institutions when Energy Flow is Interrupted and Infrastructure is Damaged△. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2009, 09(11): 1147-1150. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.20090207 Copy

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