[Solved] Global Event

Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami

On 26^th December 2004, Indians experienced one of the most severe earthquakes in the world. According to scientists, it was caused by rapture on the fault separating Burma and Indian plate. A series of tsunamis resulted from the earthquake because of the seismic activities in the ocean. The earthquake is considered the longest recorded in history because it lasted for a total of 10 minutes. More than 230,000 people, in about 12 countries, along the coasts of the Indian Ocean were killed by the tsunami, leaving millions with injuries (Martin et al., 2017). The Indonesian city in Banda Aceh reported the highest number of victims among all the affected areas.  The earthquake also led to the destruction of property worth billions and the destruction of community structures. Global humanitarian…

Response by Local and National Communities

The Navy, Army, and Air force were immediately deployed to the scene of the calamity with the instructions from the Union Ministry of Home Affairs as soon as possible to help save lives.  The ministry took the central role of mobilizing the rescue operation, providing resources, and coordinating the activities to save as more people as possible (Hoving, 2016). Citizens from other parts of India helped by providing more human resource in …

 The environment was also contaminated with the broken sanitation facilities and sewage, which lead to a massive diarrhea outbreak to the survivors and the rescue team. Medical practitioners from the safe parts of India and from all over the world managed to form a team in one day to try and help solve health issues and injuries faced by survivors. Because of the limited healthcare resources, the primary target of the available care providers was to stabilize patients’ conditions and prepare them to form transportation to adequate care facilities with all the required medical materials. The healthcare team started with saving small children, then the elderly, pregnant women, and …

Impacts of The Social Attitudes and Problems of Class, Race, and Gender to The Response Towards the Disaster

Positive social attitude towards the rescue operation contributed to a massive response of people from the entire planet willing to help in the best way possible. It led to enormous support from the unaffected people through donations and physical assistance. A large number of individuals traveled to the affected area to help the caregivers in moving the injured to save lives.  The element of the race resulted in cultural conflicts and misunderstandings among the affected population and the respondents. The respondents, more so the medical practitioners were forced to gather information about the affected people to avoid violation of their beliefs and ideologies during the …

Barriers to Healthcare Services for The Affected People

Among the barriers to effective healthcare services to the affected population were inadequacy in the number of available care providers and equipment. The calamity destroyed all the healthcare facilities in the region and injured some of the well trained and skilled practitioners.  The rescue team had to wait for healthcare personnel from the other areas of India and the rest of the world, who took some time to respond because of the issue of distance. Healthcare…

The tsunami also led to the destruction of roads and other means of transport, making it difficult to access the locations of the causalities.  Air transport was the only means left and was not efficient enough to move the required number of medical personnel to the sites. Transport barrier leads to delayed healthcare services that resulted in the worsening of health conditions and increased the number of deaths (Martin et al., 2017). Patient population pressure was also extreme, as a result of the calamity, giving the available medical …

Role of International Health Organizations and Charitable Organizations in The Provision of Health Services Related to The Global Event

The organizations support the health provision process in case of global events through financial aid to acquire the needed medical resources.  Philanthropic and international health organizations also ensure the availability of adequate information systems to aid in care coordination between the affected site and healthcare facilities to ensure an effective transition of care. Most international Health Organizations have medical practitioners of their own (Hoving, 2016). They can, therefore, provide physical support in case of calamities by providing the human resources to help in the rescue operation and save lives. The organizations also help in the planning and compelling…

Role of Professional Nurses in Providing Healthcare Services Related to The Global Event

Nurses are among the major actors in the healthcare provision field since they experience most contact with patients and therefore determine the outcome of the treatment process. They perform an essential role in the disaster response process by making sure no further loss of life is experienced. Nurses ensure a positive environment from the chaos of the calamity is created to aid the patient through the treatment and recovery process.  The World Nursing Association made a global call for assistance immediately after the Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami.  The request explained that the patient population was overwhelming to the available healthcare providers, and therefore, more support was required from all over the world to help manage the situation that was getting out of …

References

Hoving, J. K. (2016). How negotiations within the humanitarian arena shape the effectiveness of the coordination of disaster response: A literature review of the Indian Ocean earthquake of 2004 in Indonesia and the Haitian earthquake of 2010 in Haiti.

Martin, S. S., Li, L., Okal, E., Kanamori, H., Morin, J., Sieh, K., & Switzer, A. (2017, December). New constraints on the magnitude of the 4 January 1907 tsunami earthquake off Sumatra, Indonesia, and its Indian Ocean-wide tsunami. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.

Resosudarmo, B. P. (2017). Reconstruction and Rehabilitation After Large-Scale Natural Disasters: Lessons from the Indian Ocean Tsunami in Aceh and Nias, Indonesia. In Spatial Economic Modelling of Megathrust Earthquake in Japan (pp. 313-334). Springer, Singapore.

Rubin, C. M., Horton, B. P., Sieh, K., Pilarczyk, J. E., Daly, P., Ismail, N., & Parnell, A. C. (2017). Highly variable recurrence of tsunamis in the 7,400 years before the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Nature communications, 8, 16019.