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Central American Nations Approve
Joint Disaster Reduction Plan
for the Health Sector
 In
the wake of Hurricane Mitch, the most devastating disaster
to strike Central America in decades, SICA, the Central American
System for Integration and CEPREDENAC, its disaster arm, helped
guide preparation of a strategic framework to reduce vulnerability
to disasters. Within this framework, the disaster offices
of the Ministries of Health, led by Nicaragua, prepared the
Central American Vulnerability Reduction Plan for the health
sector, which was approved at the annual meeting of Health
Ministers in August.
The Plan outlines ways
to strengthen technical cooperation among the countries of
Central America so that the response to disasters will be
more timely, organized and efficient. The Plan will serve
as a roadmap for the next two years as the countries begin
to prepare or improve their own national health sector disaster
plans in light of these collective commitments. The full-text
plan is available on the Internet at www.disaster-info.net/saludca/desastresCR/.
For more information contact Beatriz Vélez: velezb@hon.ops-oms.org
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