Abstract
We investigated the management situation of the welfare evacuation shelters in the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake and analyzed the problems on the management of the welfare evacuation shelter. We investigated how the number of supporters for evacuees and evacuees changed for two special nursing homes in Mashiki town, Kumamoto prefecture, where welfare evacuation shelters were opened, by interview and questionnaire. During the week after the earthquake occurred, both social welfare facilities experienced great confusion. The reason was that few staff were able to go to work due to the disaster and accepted many general evacuees. In order to avoid such confusion, it is necessary to add procedures for opening welfare evacuation shelters in BCP.
