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Program for Enhancement of Emergency Response (PEER)Enhancing emergency response capacity in Asia since 1998
What is HOPE? Hospital Preparedness for Emergencies
HOPE is a Training Course, capacity building and technical assistance program for medical facility staff and healthcare personnel, both medical and non medical, to prepare healthcare facilities to respond effectively to community emergencies involving large numbers of casualties.
The course enables staff to develop disaster preparedness plans to respond, based on best-practice guidelines. Instructors and practitioners are trained with HOPE and expert assistance is provided on enhancing medical facility preparedness.
HOPE is a component of Program for Enhancement of Emergency Response (PEER) - a regional program initiated by USAID/OFDA in 1998. The goal is to enhance local and regional disaster preparedness and response capacities of vulnerable countries in Asia. Another component is Community Action for Disaster Response (CADRE). Both are managed by the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, (ADPC) Bangkok, Thailand. www.adpc.net/peer
HOPE Training Curriculum• Disaster types and risk management• Disaster epidemiology and patterns of injury• Hospital structural components and seismic hazards• Principles of disaster medicine, triage and emergency care• Creating a Hospital Disaster Plan• Emergency department operations• Preparing for functional collapse and operational tools• Mental health and psychosocial care• Hospital disaster management of agencies and media
Partial Funding Assistance Program
Philippines, Indonesia, Nepal, India,
Pakistan & Bangladesh
Partnership with Health Ministries and WHO
Institutionalization with Medical Training Institutes
and Universities
Development of Model Hospitals
Expansion CountriesCambodia, Lao PDR & Vietnam
National Pilot & Adaptation
Instructor Development
Development of Model Hospitals
AccomplishmentsPEER 3 -April 2009 to present
Philippines
IndonesiaNepal
India
Pakist
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Cambodia
Lao PDR
Vietnam
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Hospital Staff Trained with HOPE Course
New Instructors trained with HOPE-TFI
Impact of HOPE• Institutionalized in DOH Philippines with
regular government funding
• Modules used to cascade training in hospitals
• Recognized by WHO and other medical associations as one of the capacity building activities in making hospitals safe from disasters
• Increasing interest from non-PEER countries - Thailand, Oman, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Myanmar
•45 new HOPE instructors•319 hospital staff trained•Khmer, Vietnamese & Lao HOPE materials
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