Are countries in the South-East Asia region less receptive to the idea?
• Yes, unfortunately that is true. Despite the demonstrated fact of cost-effective risk reduction, especially nonstructural and functional vulnerability reduction, and the huge damage recent events of natural hazards have inflicted on health facilities including their occupants, vulnerabilities of health facilities are on the increase. The risk comes from locational vulnerability, structural and nonstructural vulnerability and functional vulnerability. Repeatedly we see hospitals adding on yet another storey on the top of an already vulnerable hospital building. Many times construction of a health facility does not follow the code for residential buildings, whereas the code standards for health facilities should be much higher than that of a residential building. • However, there is a growing concern for the safety of health facilities and for ensuring their functionality during a disaster. The Hospital Preparedness for Emergencies, the training programme that NSET is implementing unde
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