Issues We Face

We live in a modern society where technologic advances continue to improve the way in which public health is delivered. Industrialized nations dedicate vast amounts of capital to their healthcare systems, so as to ensure the medical care rendered is of the highest level.

The medical field itself has created areas of expertise such as quality assurance and peer-review to ensure such a level is achieved and maintained. In light of that, it is hard to understand why the care of disaster and mass casualty, a subset of human suffering with the highest likelihood of causing large-scale morbidity and mortality, is left to an often untrained and disjointed medical response system, and that the little training that does exist for such responders is haphazardly designed and poorly regulated.

Current preparedness and response systems focus on specific areas of intervention and make no attempt to integrate all things necessary to address the entire problem. There are no systems in place to adequately prepare for and respond to all of the needs of the victim of disaster…..until now.