6.2. Hospital care
6.2.1.Hospital admission and treatment
The alerted hospitals should activate their contingency mechanisms, based on pre-established disaster preparedness plans that define the measures to be put in place to transfer the routine organization of health services into a system to respond to the emergency, using all the institution’s resources. Hospital-based triage teams may reclassify patients upon admission. Read more about hospital disaster preparedness and consider a Disaster Planning Checklist.