Open AccessMorbidity among the Israeli Defense Force response team during Nepal, post-earthquake mission, 2015
Author(s) -
Tamar Lachish,
Aviad Bar,
Heli Alalouf,
Ofer Merin,
Eli Schwartz
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of travel medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.985
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1708-8305
pISSN - 1195-1982
DOI - 10.1093/jtm/taw083
Subject(s) - medicine , economic shortage , medical emergency , public health , family medicine , health care , emergency medicine , environmental health , nursing , linguistics , philosophy , government (linguistics) , economics , economic growth
On 25 April 2015, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal. Soon after, the Israel Defense Force (IDF) dispatched a rapid-response team and opened a tertiary field hospital in Kathmandu. There is limited data regarding the spectrum of diseases among rescue teams to disease-stricken areas. The aim of this study was to assess the morbidity among the field-hospital staff during the mission.
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