ABSTRACT

This poster is written to highlight the improved version of disaster management in Hospital Queen
Elizabeth - a state hospital of Sabah, that encompassing topics regarding prevention, mitigation,
preparedness, response, and recovery of services - covering issues from managerial, planning and
implimentation. Traumatic event of Hospital Sultanah Aminah on October 2016 was the biggest
indication that the method and protocols for disaster management that previously been used by the
hospital are insufficient given the peculiarity of tenant that occupying the hospital’s facilities and
condition of the hospital’s buildings which majority were old and built before 1960s. This special
circumstances need different method of evacuation during disaster. In 2017 after thorough many
simulation trainings and table tops, new methods and protocols of disaster management for the
hospital was formed by improving and enhancing the old protocols in accordance with the Fire Safety
Act 1988, Uniform Building Act 1984 and taking the Directive No.20, the “Policy and Mechanism on
National Disaster Relief and Management” as a referral and working frame, focusing on the topic of
prevention, mitigation and preparedness. The main essense of this new method and protocols is a
team known as Emergency Response Team – a team consists of hospital staffs that recieved proper
training by Fire & Rescue Department of Malaysia. This new methods and protocols can be promoted
to be used by another health facilities Malaysia’s wide in view of similarity of conditions as to ensure
that all Ministry of Health of Malaysia’s health facilities are safe.