Many Health Care Facilities Unprepared for Tsunami-Related Disasters; 40% Without Evacuation Plan

Many Health Care Facilities Unprepared for Tsunami-Related Disasters; 40% Without Evacuation Plan

Despite concern over future earthquakes in places such as the Nankai Trough off Japan’s Pacific coast, health care facilities in tsunami disaster warning areas across the country have been slow to draw up plans to secure the safe evacuation of users, such as the elderly and hospital inpatients.