Hospitals should be safe from disasters: reduce risk, protect health facilities, save lives

This document defines a safe hospital and describes the essentials of a safe hospital. It also lists the structural and non-structural indicators as well as functional indicators which every hospital and clinic should consider as standards to be achieved. In line with the Hyogo Framework for Action call for government to support ensuring that existing and new health care facilities will be re-structured or engineered to remain functional at the height of an emergency, this document is aimed to guide all Hospital Administrators in the pursuit of one vision - to make every hospital safe from disaster and accessible at all times for all disaster victims.

It is a project of the Filipino Department of Health-Health Emergency Management Staff and National Center for Health Facility Development, with support from the Association of Hospital Administrators and the WHO.