The Role of Laboratories and Blood Banks in Disaster Situations
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The purpose of this guide, developed at a workshop held in Managua, Nicaragua on 7 June 2001, is to sensitize and orient health authorities, laboratory directors, laboratory technicians, and blood bank personnel to the identification of responsibilities and functions of laboratory and blood bank services in disaster situations, taking into account priorities, needs, and the local capacity for immediate response. The response of health services to disaster situations will be improved when activities to mitigate and reduce vulnerability and to restore and reorganize laboratory and blood bank services are incorporated in emergency plans. |