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Care

  CARE September 11, 2022   CARE CARE is a comprehensive capacity and patient management tool, built specifically for disaster management purposes. It has dedicated features for COVID testing, inventory management, teleconsultation, etc. It keeps the digital record of a patient's health and enables treatment across different healthcare facilities.It also allows the state/ district administrators to have a birds-eye view of the health infrastructure at their disposal through smart dashboards and reports. Health being one of the key elements of disaster management, this tool does a good job at delivering healthcare with decentralised control. The asset management modules also helps in keeping track of the requirement from the field and ensuring effective supply of essentials.Care is open-source software with an MIT license Open-Source Software: The entire codebase of this application is available to the public. The software that formes CARE is developed on an online portal calle...
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Disaster management

  Disaster management September 13, 2022 Disaster Management can be defined as the preparedness, response and recovery methods in order to lessen the impact of disasters. A disaster disrupts the normal function of the society to the extent that it cannot function without outside help.  Disasters can be classified as natural, technological or complex emergencies.    Prevention of Natural disaster  Vegetative measures: Preserving vegetation, grasses and trees can minimize the amount of water infiltrating into the soil, slow the erosion caused by surface-water flow, and remove water from the soil.  Structural Measures: Retaining and Diverting water using dams, floodplains, levees etc., Constructing piles & retention walls Improving surface & subsurface drainage Rock-fall protection  Management measures: Integrated river basin approach public awareness, participation and insurance Land use zoning & risk assessment Flood forecasting and warning ...
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Creating awareness CRN

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  activity1 -  September 09, 2022 About: Community Response Network (CRN 101) is a simple course designed to give a student a basic understanding of disaster management and how government systems work in general.   Objective: The objective of CRN 101 course is to educate and create awareness about various government systems involved in the mitigation of disaster management. It covers a brief introduction to various government systems and how these systems coordinate together a Times of disasters.   The 3-Tier Panchayat System Rural Area The smallest unit within a Panchayat System is a ward. From each ward, an individual is elected by the people in the Panchayat through the Panchayat elections and is known as “Ward Member”. The ward members from various Wards report to a Panchayat Committee. The Panchayat committee also has appointed members along with the elected members. The Panchayat Committee has a President (Elected Member) and Secretary(government appointed memb...
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