Topic og the month: Hurricanes - Invest to prevent disaster - Floods - Disability and disaster risk management - Volcanic eruptions -Climate Change - Disaster education- Earthquakes - El Niño-southern oscillation (ENSO)climate change2-Technological Hazards- Early Warning -Green house effect-Disaster risk reduction Disaster risk management - Emergency management - Relief / response - Building codes - Safe Hospital

Safe Hospital

A health facility whose services remain accessible and functioning at its maximum capacity, and in the same infrastructure, during and immediately following the impact of a natural hazard.

• http://www.paho.org/English/DD/PED/SafeHospitals.htm

• http://www.safehospitals.info/

• http://www.crid.or.cr/digitalizacion/pdf/eng/doc8922/doc8922.htm