Favier, P;
Rivera Jofre, F;
Poulos, A;
Vasquez, J;
De La Llera, JC;
Mitrani-Reiser, J;
(2017)
Impact on Chilean hospitals following the 2015 Illapel earthquake.
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Proceedings of the 16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering.
WCEE: Santiago, Chili.
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Abstract
In a post-disaster environment, hospitals play a critical role in healthcare services continuities to the population while effectively coping with eventual losses of functionality. These losses come from physical damage to the facility, loss of utility lifelines, failure in supply chains, and reduction of personnel. However, data describing the detailed performance of hospitals during past earthquakes are scarce. Consequently, following the 2015 Mw 8.3 Illapel earthquake in central Chile, an exhaustive field campaign was carried out in the Coquimbo region to collect substantial perishable data to describe physical damage to hospitals and functionality losses. This study presents first the baseline information obtained in nine surveyed government hospitals, including size, location and type of infrastructure. Then, the seismic impact was analyzed and classified to show the main physical structural and non-structural damage, lifeline interruptions, losses in hospital units, and variations in flow of patients and staff. Transfers, discharges and evacuations of patients that occurred after the event were also reported. We found that the earthquake did not affect strongly the healthcare service despite the fact that most of the structural and non-structural damage was localized in the largest regional hospital. The archival nature of the data collected may deepen our understanding of the post-earthquake healthcare system performance, which is very useful in improving disaster preparation and overall resilience.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Impact on Chilean hospitals following the 2015 Illapel earthquake |
| Event: | 16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering |
| Location: | Santiago |
| Dates: | 09 January 2017 - 13 January 2017 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | http://www.iitk.ac.in/nicee/wcee/sixteenth_conf_Sa... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | hospital resilience, loss of functionality, healthcare network, seismic performance, earthquake data collection. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Civil, Environ and Geomatic Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10093435 |
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