Activity of a Medical Relief Team from Shizuoka Hospital During the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake

Abstract

Objective: Report on the activity of a medical relief team from Shizuoka Hospital during the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake.
Design: Narrative report
Results: Two staff members from our department were assigned to the Aso Disaster Recovery Organization (ADRO) at Aso Medical Center. Their main activities included summarizing reports from the medical teams at refugee stations, managing the needs and supplies of medical requests, assigning missions to the medical relief teams, inputting data on the chronology of the ADRO into the Emergency Medical Information System, taking minutes on the daily evening meeting, and reporting these activities to the headquarters of medical relief at the Kumamoto Prefectural Office.
Conclusion: The staff members learned the importance and difficulty of managing a medical administrative supervisory section temporarily established during a natural disaster.