From left: Maurice Chamberlain, Nurse Leader Clinical Support, Debbie
O’Byrne from Service Improvement and Averil Boon from Quality &
Patient Safety in the Emergency Operations Centre in Tauranga.
BOPDHB swing
into action
for mock Tsunami
There have been a lot of good learnings from this exercise
and those who took the time out of their busy schedules to
participate are commended for their positive attitude, aptitude
and application. The next big major exercise is a MoH pandemic
scheduled for July 2017.
By Emergency Panning Coordinator
Jocelyn Stowers.
Five Incident Management Teams involving 38
BOPDHB staff were called on to test emergency
responses for the Ministry of Civil Defence
National Exercise TANGAROA last month.
The two day mock Tsunami saw the Emergency Operations
Centres (EOCs) in Tauranga and Whakatāne activated. Personnel
brushed up on their Coordinated Incident Management Systems
(CIMS) skills as processes and systems were put to the test.
The BOP Civil Defence Group developed excellent scenarios that
tested not just the response effort but our collaboration across
the emergency and lifeline services as well. For example day two
included:
•
50,000 displaced persons;
•
138 people missing;
•
4,180 people injured;
•
15,700 fatalities within the BOPDHB region; and
•
Problems with power, gas, water, fuel shortages, large
scale road outages and the treatment plant in Chapel Street
destroyed.
Troy Browne, Medical Leader Surgical Services acts as the Incident Control
for the exercise.
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