Tokushima University Hospital, as a disaster base hospital, conducted a disaster response drill on October 12th in collaboration with the neighboring Tokushima Prefectural Central Hospital to ensure that the disaster response headquarters, various testing facilities and medical departments such as wards would be able to function adequately in the event of a large-scale disaster.

��In this training, a siege training exercise was conducted, simulating tsunami damage caused by an earthquake of magnitude 6��or higher. A disaster response headquarters was established headed by Hospital Director, Dr. Shoji Kagami, and the level of medical functions was decided at a disaster response meeting. Verification was conducted of the personnel, information, supplies, etc. necessary to maintain the hospital's medical functions in the event of flooding caused by a tsunami. The operation of paper forms was also verified based on the assumption that the electronic medical record system would not be available.

��We also conducted training on coordination and communication for patient transport using the medical bridge which is a connecting bridge between our hospital and the adjacent Tokushima Prefectural Central Hospital.

��Since this training was a siege training exercise, it was carried out under the assumption that a small number of patients would be accepted from the surrounding area, but the training was more realistic with students from our university's Faculty of Medicine playing the role of patients. The hospital staff who participated took the training seriously and, by identifying current issues, were reminded of the importance of regularly checking the necessary systems in place to maintain the hospital's medical functions even in the event of a disaster.

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