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Disaster Management Centre Port-harcourt
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• The Training unit:
This
unit will be responsible for the training of the rescue squads and will
feature necessary fitness facilities. It is also a unit that aids to
promote a culture of risk avoidance among people by capacitating role
players through integrated education, training and public awareness
programmes informed by scientific research.
The department of
training develops the curriculum and coordinate the human resources
development of the agency in addition to catering for the training needs
of the staff on modern skills which qualify them to be good disaster
managers as obtain in other part of the world.
• The Maintenance Unit:
This
unit takes care of all repairs and daily/weekly check of all the
vehicles used for search and rescue operations. The automobile workshop,
electrical workshop, vulcanizing workshop, tailor workshop, spare parts
store etc. are all part of the maintenance department.
• The Aviation Operations:
This
section takes care of disasters not easily assessable by land; it
involves the use of helicopters necessary for rapid response to
disasters that occurred in difficult or far terrain.
• The Marine Operations:
This unit takes care of offshore disasters such as boat mishap.
• The Land Operations:
This
unit will take care of out-breaks and other land accidents where
necessary. It will involve provision of parking lots for ambulances;
fire fighting vehicles, motor bikes, personnel carries etc.
• The Finance Unit:
This
section plans, organizes, and directs logistics operations that include
control and accountability for supplies and equipment; resource
ordering; delivery of supplies, equipment, resource tracking, facility
location, setup, space management, building services, general facility
operations, Transport coordination and fleet management services, and
salary of staff.
• The Relief and Rehabilitation Unit:
This unit
provides leadership to build, sustain, and improve the coordination and
delivery of support and relief to citizens and State, local, tribal and
territorial governments to save lives, reduce suffering, protect
property and recover from all hazards. These units also receive the
materials for relief and properly distribute it to affected people.
1.6.3 THE CLINIC:
Time
is a crucial element in Disaster Management. In recognition of this,
the agency will have a clinic that will aid in first aid treatment of
victims, and also, there will be ambulances that will convey seriously
injured people to bigger hospitals and also convey the dead to the
mortuary.
1.6.4 THE STAFF ACCOMMODATION:
Accommodation will be
provided for resident staff of the organization and also for resident
doctors that will handle the clinic and all medical affairs.
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