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Disaster Chronicles: Hurricanes Georges and Mitch(Available in Spanish only)Certainly, disasters can teach us valuable lessons. That is why the Pan American Health Organization publishes reports and studies in the Disaster Reports Series that analyze the impact on health and capture the lessons learned on preparedness and the response from the health sector in these emergencies. It is an effort directed towards improving disaster management and evolving towards a less vulnerable and more secure world. Georges and Mitch are names that will never again be used for hurricanes, and are now in the company of Camille, Andrew, Hazel and Hugo, among others. This "privilege" is attained only by those hurricanes that created devastating consequences and, unfortunately, these two phenomena - occurring only a little over one month apart from each other - severely affected the population of Central America and the Caribbean in September and October 1998. We have compiled eight national reports in this series which describe the events, and above all, analyze the impact and response from the health sector in the most affected countries, gathering the lessons learned for the future. Readers of these reports will better be able to respond to such questions as: Was the health sector adequately prepared? How did it respond? What were the main difficulties in sanitation assistance operations? What measures should be taken, or which procedures and actions can improve for the future? What are the lessons learned from these two hurricanes? This book can be ordered directly from PAHO's Emergency Preparedness Program (disaster-publications@paho.org), or can be downloaded by individual chapters as PDF files using the links that follow.
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