A disaster is a situation that everyone is responsible for.

Every country gas a disaster plan for

preparedness

a. i. define disaster
disaster is defined as an incident which occur in a sudden manner, complex in its nature and
causes loses of lives ., damages to property or natural environment and bring a deep effect
to local activities Such incident requires an extensive resources , equipment , skills and man
power from many agencies with an affective coordination , which is possibly demanding a
complex action
ii. Define mass casualty incident
An incident that generates a sufficiently large number of casualties whereby the available
healthcare resources, or their management systems, are severely challenged or unable to
meet the healthcare needs of the affected population.

b. describe disaster classification

Natural disaster – harmful event that happened natural eg. Earthquake,hurricane

Human made disaster – caused by human eg.chemical threat,war

Hydbrid disaster – a disaster cause by both natural and man made – eg. Flash flood

a. describe phase of disaster management

1. prevention
- implementing evacuation plan
- planning and designing a city in way that minimize the risk
2. mitigation
- aim to minimize loss of human life
- both structural and nonstructural measures maybe taken
3. Preparedness
- Do a training to ensure highest level of readiness
- Do a fire drills and evacuation rehearsal.
4. Response
- Disaster management leader will coordinate the use of resources to help restore
personal and environmental safety and minimize the risk of any additional damage
5. Recovery
- Can take long time to restore all essential community functions.
- Ultimately this stage is about helping individual, communities, businesses and
organization return to normal or new normal depending on the impact.