Iran because of its size, geographical location, and climatical diversity is among the
most disastrous countries in the world. Earthquake, both on the economic devastation
and loss of life, is the most devastating natural disaster. In the last 10 years, there have
been about 950 earthquakes in Iran and as a result 37,600 people were killed and 53,300
injured. These figure do not include casualties of Barn earthquake.
Crisis resulting from natural disasters, requires special management sy~tem.Disaster
management system in Iran, because of encountering several natural disasters and a
long-lasting recent war, has enough experience in this regard, specially in using nongovernmental
emergency systems, such as Red Crescent and Basij.
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However, in the past, disaster management were mainly limited to the rescue, saving
lives and reconstructions after the disaster and other dimensions of crisis management
including prevention (reducing the effect of disaster) and readiness to respond and
quickness of response in an effective way and also an organized management seems to
be lacked.
In this paper, we will discuses the medical management in Barn earthquake. Wewill
discuss the management of the human resources, transportation of injured, equipment
and medical care personnel and suggestions will be given to overcome some of the
problems in the disaster management.