United Nations Radio

The World Health Organization is advocating the concept of safe hospitals globally in the wake of China's Quake and Myanmar's Cyclone. The 2008-2009 World Disaster Reduction Campaign of Hospitals safe from disasters: reduce risk, protect health facilities, save lives is promoting the need to safeguard hospitals, rural health centres and other facilities from disasters. WHO says Myanmar's Cyclone Nargis and China's magnitude 8.0 earthquake devastated many health facilities, hampering post-crisis healthcare and raising questions on how best to reconstruct the health infrastructure. Julie Walker has 2 reports long and short.