Disaster Planing for Kinshasa City

Abstract

The natural, accidental, and/or human disasters disrupt the public health all over the world. Disasters can happen either in rich or in poor countries. Only good planing will allow the control of the consequences and decrease the effects.Kinshasa is a metropolis in Africa, but hasn't evolved enough ways to resolve these problems. The crash disaster of type-K Market had shown that we were not sufficiently able to overcome these difficulties. In this study, the authors describe the disaster planing of Kinshasa City by using human and material resources. The basic management of this plan is to gather the hospitals and establish interventional areas.Kinshasa has twenty-four zones. In each of them, a check of material resources (medical center, church, school, ambulances, ways of communications, etc.) had been done. Human resources (physicians, nurses, red cross rescuer, scouts, development's group ) also has been checked. In a disaster, each of the twenty-four zones must began to work itself before receiving any help. In this kind of management, Emergencies and Disaster problems must be resolved by local planning.