Evaluation of pharmaceutical care in Brazilian primary health services settings: expanding objects and approaches

The Disaster Preparedness among Health Care Workers in Holy Mosques at Makkah and Madinah, Saudi Arabia

“…However, no statistically significant difference between those working at Makkah health center (86.8%), Al Ansar hospital (83.2%), and Madinah health center (75%), which reflects the efforts of the ministry of health in Saudi Arabia regarding updating of the health workers in holy cities about guidelines of dealing with different forms of disasters [11,14,15]. The majority of the health workers agreed that all the health workers need to know about disaster plans, which fulfill the recommendations for preparedness for disasters, and that collaborative multidisciplinary administration strategies at all levels in the health institute are crucial to the delivery of effective and efficient responses to the health requirements of disaster [16]. A significantly higher proportion of the health workers in Makkah center (78.1%) agreed that they are adequately prepared to deal with a sudden influx of a large number of patients if compared to those in Madinah HC and those in Al Ansar hospital, which could be explained by the buildup experience of workers in Makkah center after the falling of a crane in the Haram and stampede of pilgrims in 2015 which resulted in mass casualties and a large influx of injured individuals to the center [11].…”