Reflexiones y sentimientos desde un equipo de voluntarios del Ministerio de Salud y el Colegio Médico de Chile, después del terremoto reciente

The experience of a group of 9 doctors and 6 nurses, most of them younger than 30years of age, whom were part of the several volunteer groups directed towards the most damaged earthquake regions, is described. The team had to overcome a number of intense personal emotions related with the magnitude...

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Autor principal:	O'RYAN G,MIGUEL
Lenguaje:	Spanish / Castilian
Publicado:	Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2010
Materias:	Chile Disasters Earthquakes Students, health occupations Volunteers
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0034-988720100003000022010-05-19Reflexiones y sentimientos desde un equipo de voluntarios del Ministerio de Salud y el Colegio Médico de Chile, después del terremoto recienteO'RYAN G,MIGUEL Chile Disasters Earthquakes Students, health occupations Volunteers The experience of a group of 9 doctors and 6 nurses, most of them younger than 30years of age, whom were part of the several volunteer groups directed towards the most damaged earthquake regions, is described. The team had to overcome a number of intense personal emotions related with the magnitude of the destruction, especially in the "adobe"-constructed houses and villages, in order to provide useful medical support. Moving out of the hospital setting, reaching out to the community in schools and emergency posts proved to be important in rural communities. An appropriate coordination of the volunteer groups, with the simultaneous action of municipal and state health authorities, together with well-guided leadership, was critical for an effective response in the larger city of Talcahuano /Hualpén. Within the second week of the aftermath, acute respiratory and intestinal infections were the most common medical complaints together with intense -in many cases severe- emotional distress associated mostly with fear to after shakes ("replicas"), tsunami, and social unrest. The severe earthquake that struck Chile has left many lessons for the future that will need to be analyzed seriously and with the conviction that effective and timely prevention of catastrophic aftermath consequences, although costly, must be a key element of the country's development plan. More importantly, the hundreds if not thousands of volunteers from a variety of health related professions that were moved by the scenes of suffering, and whom responded to individual or group initiatives, allow to foresee that the nation has the moral stamina required to overcome the tragedy and become a better society.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.138 n.3 20102010-03-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872010000300002es10.4067/S0034-98872010000300002
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spellingShingle	Chile Disasters Earthquakes Students, health occupations Volunteers O'RYAN G,MIGUEL Reflexiones y sentimientos desde un equipo de voluntarios del Ministerio de Salud y el Colegio Médico de Chile, después del terremoto reciente
description	The experience of a group of 9 doctors and 6 nurses, most of them younger than 30years of age, whom were part of the several volunteer groups directed towards the most damaged earthquake regions, is described. The team had to overcome a number of intense personal emotions related with the magnitude of the destruction, especially in the "adobe"-constructed houses and villages, in order to provide useful medical support. Moving out of the hospital setting, reaching out to the community in schools and emergency posts proved to be important in rural communities. An appropriate coordination of the volunteer groups, with the simultaneous action of municipal and state health authorities, together with well-guided leadership, was critical for an effective response in the larger city of Talcahuano /Hualpén. Within the second week of the aftermath, acute respiratory and intestinal infections were the most common medical complaints together with intense -in many cases severe- emotional distress associated mostly with fear to after shakes ("replicas"), tsunami, and social unrest. The severe earthquake that struck Chile has left many lessons for the future that will need to be analyzed seriously and with the conviction that effective and timely prevention of catastrophic aftermath consequences, although costly, must be a key element of the country's development plan. More importantly, the hundreds if not thousands of volunteers from a variety of health related professions that were moved by the scenes of suffering, and whom responded to individual or group initiatives, allow to foresee that the nation has the moral stamina required to overcome the tragedy and become a better society.
author	O'RYAN G,MIGUEL
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title	Reflexiones y sentimientos desde un equipo de voluntarios del Ministerio de Salud y el Colegio Médico de Chile, después del terremoto reciente
title_short	Reflexiones y sentimientos desde un equipo de voluntarios del Ministerio de Salud y el Colegio Médico de Chile, después del terremoto reciente
title_full	Reflexiones y sentimientos desde un equipo de voluntarios del Ministerio de Salud y el Colegio Médico de Chile, después del terremoto reciente
title_fullStr	Reflexiones y sentimientos desde un equipo de voluntarios del Ministerio de Salud y el Colegio Médico de Chile, después del terremoto reciente
title_full_unstemmed	Reflexiones y sentimientos desde un equipo de voluntarios del Ministerio de Salud y el Colegio Médico de Chile, después del terremoto reciente
title_sort	reflexiones y sentimientos desde un equipo de voluntarios del ministerio de salud y el colegio médico de chile, después del terremoto reciente
publisher	Sociedad Médica de Santiago
publishDate	2010
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Reflexiones y sentimientos desde un equipo de voluntarios del Ministerio de Salud y el Colegio Médico de Chile, después del terremoto reciente

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