Monitoring age of hospitals potentially required in case of disaster in Mexico
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https://doi.org/10.33064/iycuaa2020803004Keywords:
safety, risk, health, construction, ObservatoryAbstract
The occurrence of recent disasters in Mexico made evident the need to assess the safety of the critical infrastructure of the health sector. Given the relatively recent development of building codes and guidelines to make hospitals safe from disasters, this article explores the obstacles to increase the safety of hospitals considering their construction period. Therefore, age and floor space ratio were used as indicators to analyze hospitals that are currently under process of certification in the Safe Hospital program in Mexico. It is observed that only a minority of hospitals are of recent construction and most of these hospitals are subject to a constant physical expansion. Therefore, an Observatory is proposed to identify vulnerabilities associated with age and gradual reduction of open space. This would be useful to evaluate the feasibility of receiving a large number of patients after a mass casualty disaster.
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