Chiara Ecosse
Performance of hospital and transportation networks after a simulated seismic event.
Rel. Gian Paolo Cimellaro. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Architecture Construction City, 2019
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Abstract
Hospital overcrowding is a serious issue that compromises daily service quality in many modern communities worldwide. Reduction of ward beds without an increment of low-intensity structures, bad-users, and obsolete equipment are few examples of the common causes of emergency departments overloading. Traffic jam is another ordinary city-scale issue accentuated during the last decades, when the urban population overcame the rural one but roads capacity remained the same. These phenomenon are even more emphasized during emergencies due to natural disasters, because thousands of people need aid. In such situations, roads could be blocked by collapsed buildings, causing an increase of casualties’ travel time towards hospitals and the latter reach quickly their maximum capacity therefore patients might need to be relocated in other facilities.
This process has to be carefully managed otherwise it can lead to tremendous human losses
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