This note was sent to the CSSL by Dr Ranjith Perera who was
on duty and later joined by Dr Rajasekaram, surgeons at Negombo, on behalf of
the whole surgical and management team who attended the disaster management at
DGH Negombo
.
The above incident kept us very busy attending to the mass
casualty. We had 102 deaths following this unfortunate incident and most
of them were dead by the time they were brought.
We don’t have proper statistics as to how many patients were
brought as the number of patients brought in a short time exceeded the capacity
to document. Today after 72 hours, only 17 patients are still being treated in
the hospital.
The magnitude of the disaster was such that it was at an unmanageable
level and therefore we were not able to coordinate it up to our expectations.
However the triage team, the Ministry of Health, our hospital staff and the
community in Negombo are happy about the way we handled the situation.
All categories of health staff helped in this needy situation
irrespective of it being a Sunday. It must be really appreciated that the
doctors including various categories of surgeons from neighboring hospitals in
the region actively participated in the management of the disaster. Even other
specialty consultants and doctors from other hospitals contributed for this
successful performance.
Please convey through the College our heartfelt thanks to the
surgeons who helped and who inquired to volunteer services whenever necessary.
We had a post event discussion today in order to take steps
to minimize the lapses and improve the system which may be useful at any
moment to our hospital.
We will appreciate if the CSSL and MOH could coordinate all over
the country for all of us to get prepared for disasters of such a magnitude.
Sincerely
The Surgeons of DGH Negombo.
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