Indeed, rail suicides have come in such bunches lately that the operator of this line, the East Japan Railway Company, or JR East, has begun to treat them as nothing less than a company-wide disaster.
Based in the government-held town of Slovyansk, she is just one of the thousands of forgotten victims in Ukraine's war-torn, industrial east – her plight, a powerful symbol of the wider disaster.
Immediately post September11 2001, our institution put in place an elaborate hospital-wide emergency management committee, a disaster committee that was responsible for organizing regular hospital-wide disaster drills and educational sessions through the various departments.
An EC report stated that data derived from past losses are useful for the implementation of disaster risk reduction strategies in Europe (from local to national scales) and to help understand wider disaster loss trends at the global level (De Groeve et al. 2013).
A UNICEF appeal to help meet the needs of children affected by the region-wide disaster is expected within 48 hours.
Clearly, more progress is still needed to improve hospital disaster resilience, especially the focus of community-wide disaster cooperation, on-site medical rescue, and hospital patient care surging capacity.
The worst floods in living memory continue to make Southern Africa - Mozambique, Madagascar, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana - a scene of unrelenting region-wide disaster, comparable in devastation to the recent earthquakes and their aftermath in Turkey.
Recognition of the vast local knowledge and experience of the health workforce could be an asset to the wider disaster management process, in helping to understand the priority needs of affected communities.
The educational kits are part of a wider disaster preparedness and response effort by the Ministry of Education, the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) and UNICEF to protect children's right to education in times of crisis.
Catholic Charities advocates for families and children in need, provides meals to the hungry, ensures decent housing for those seeking shelter, responds to individual crises and community-wide disasters, and supports the physically and emotionally challenged.
It is also conceivable that parents may become more overprotective of their children in the context of living with community-wide disasters that cause the loss of lives and property.
