Seismic Risk Assessment of Hospitals in Lima City Using GIS Tools

Santa-Cruz, Sandra; Palomino, Juan; Liguori, Nicola; Vona, Marco; Tamayo, Rodrigo

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-62398-6_25

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“…Lima is a city with more than 10 million inhabitants in which the health system is composed of public (Ministry of Health), semipublic (Social Security), and private (clinics) sectors. According to a database created in 2012 by PUCP (Lima, Peru), about 41 hospitals with their 737 pavilions belonging to public and semipublic sectors were used to achieve the goal of the study 9 . Hospitals were selected considering the importance of the services provided in case of an emergency, the presence of beds, and operating theaters.…”

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“…9 The PSRA allowed the assessment of the seismic hazard, the exposures, the vulnerability, and the damage of the analyzed hospital pavilions. 9 Regarding the seismic hazard, a seismic scenario with 72-100 years return period and peak ground acceleration of about 0.25 g was considered in the study. As soon as the damage was known, the performance of the hospital pavilions and the IOHs was evaluated.…”

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“…2,25,27 Despite the presence of a minimum backup of supplies possessed by the hospitals analyzed, the major factor that influences the BSRC is certainly connected to the vulnerability and the antiquity of the hospital buildings as already denoted in a past study on economic losses in Peru. 9 Low performance and response capacity of existing hospitals have been denoted in many past earthquake experiences. Achour et al, in a study on 34 hospitals and 9 past earthquakes, showed that hospital performance and the continuity of operation were affected by moderate or heavy structural damages and malfunction of power, water, gas, and telecommunication lines.…”

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“…Intensive treatment and surgery would be required for the injured 7 8 Furthermore, a high level of vulnerability is expected in Lima’s hospitals in case of earthquakes, as stated in the work done by the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP, Lima, Peru) 9 . Given the previsions, the major challenge remains to determine whether the hospitals in Lima are capable to provide medical care to the expected injured.…”

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“…Some work has been done in Peru to assess economic losses, structural, nonstructural, and organizational vulnerability, patient demand and performance of the hospitals in Lima in case of earthquakes, but not many prediction studies of the response capability in case of earthquakes have been developed 9 10 , 11 Therefore, the development of models capable to determine which hospitals can face an emergency is very important.…”

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Basic Seismic Response Capability of Hospitals in Lima, Peru

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Results showed a low performance of the hospitals in case of an earthquake. The issue is due to the high seismic vulnerability of the existing structures. Given the importance of Lima city in Peru, structural and nonstructural retrofitting plans should be implemented to improve the preparedness of the health system in case of an emergency. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2018;page 1 of 6).

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Analysis of the Health Network of Metropolitan Lima Against Large-Scale Earthquakes

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Barrera

2021

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Hospital-system functionality quantification based on supply–demand relationship under earthquake

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Zhang

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The post-earthquake functionality of hospital systems seriously affects the recovery time of a city, and it is important to quantify the hospital system functionality. This paper presents a method that takes into consideration the post-earthquake medical supply-demand relationship in order to quantify the initial functionality and instantaneous functionality loss of a hospital system under the conditions of an earthquake, which is different from the current quantitative method that takes into consideration only the internal factors of the hospital system. In this method, a geographic information system and an earthquake damage prediction model are first used to obtain the medical supply capacity before and after the earthquake and the medical demand after the earthquake. Based on the results of the post-earthquake medical demand and the distribution of the medical supply capacity, the substitution capacity of medical resources is then calculated. Finally, the substitution capacity of medical resources is used to evaluate the functionality of the hospital system before and after the earthquake. A hospital system of a city in eastern China is considered as an illustrative example, and the impact of changes in the medical supply and demand at different times of the day on the hospital system functionality are analyzed. The results obtained show that the changes in medical supply and demand not only affect the hospital system functionality, but also cause changes in the instantaneous functionality loss of the hospital system after the earthquake. The proposed method can be used to quantify the hospital system functionality and reflect the balance of the medical supply-demand relationship before and after the earthquake, and it can help decision makers in developing a disaster reduction strategy to improve the disaster resilience of the hospital system.

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Seismic Risk Assessment of Hospitals in Lima City Using GIS Tools

Cited by 9 publications

References 6 publications

Basic Seismic Response Capability of Hospitals in Lima, Peru

Basic Seismic Response Capability of Hospitals in Lima, Peru

Analysis of the Health Network of Metropolitan Lima Against Large-Scale Earthquakes

Hospital-system functionality quantification based on supply–demand relationship under earthquake

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