Department
of Surgery
Ospital
ng Maynila Medical Center
Ref. No: m03-93
Date:
May 4, 2003
TO:
All Consultants and Residents
FROM:
Department Chair
RE:
Development and Institutionalization of Department Disaster
Preparedness
Program
All departments of surgery must have a disaster
preparedness program to be able to effectively and efficiently handle any form of disaster that they may be called to manage
at any time.
As of this writing, the Department of Surgery
of Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center (OMMC Surgery) has no structured and written disaster preparedness program.
Starting May, 2003, OMMC Surgery will have a
structured and written disaster preparedness program.
1. An OMMC Surgery Disaster Preparedness Program will be developed and presented
in one of the regular Thursday Conferences within the month of May, 2003.
2. An OMMC Surgery Disaster Preparedness Drill (simulated disaster drill)
will be conducted within the month of May, 2003, to kick off the institutionalization of the program. Thereafter, every year, within the month of February to March, using a regular Thursday conference as the
venue, there will be a simulated disaster drill. The February- March timing is
chosen for several reasons: coinciding with Fire Prevention Month, Burn Awareness Month, start of the year, new surgical residents,
new disaster control director, etc.
3. The OMMC Surgery Disaster Preparedness Program will be posted in the OMMC
Surgery website, egroup, and Educational Resource.
4. This year, OMMC Surgery Disaster Control Director will be Dr. Alex Deveza.
This program is the first of its kind in a department
of surgery in the Philippines – another project making the OMMC Surgery truly a model department of surgery in the Philippines.
Reynaldo O. Joson, MD, MHA, MHPEd, MS Surg
Chairperson
Department of Surgery
