Role of the military nurse in disaster management: Insurgency

Hajara Bashari

Abstract

Disaster is adverse condition that can lead to loss of lives and properties. The board is the association of assets and obligations regarding managing all compassionate part of crises. In short are the preparedness, response and recovery to lessen the impact of disaster. Natural disasters are disasters that occur naturally for example; heavy rains, fire out breaks, earthquake, land/snow slides, floods and famine. Manmade disasters are disasters caused by man such as accidents, air crashes, nuclear installations, nuclear reactions, careless handling of chemicals and weapons, conventional military warfare and road traffic accidents. Other disasters are also caused by civil wars, communal conflicts, terrorist attacks by group armed men/ campaign. Types of terrorist attack are hostage taking, sporadic firing, Hijacking, Suicide bombing, Assassination. As the nurse should be professionally trained and militarily to enable her/he to assume the following roles especially while mostly dealing with terrorist group, she must act as a medical personnel by treating all the wounded or the sick taken as hostages, act as an intelligent personnel by ensuring As the observation which is going on around her/he should be alert with cautious mind, acting as a link between the authorities and the terrorists which will be dangerous situation mostly faced.

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