Clinical and demographic profile of admitted victims in a tertiary hospital after the 2015 earthquake in Nepal.
Maria Moitinho de AlmeidaJoris Adriaan Frank van LoenhoutSunil Singh ThapaK C KumarBenjamin-Samuel SchlüterRavikant SinghXavier BanseDan PutineanuDeepak Prakash MaharaDebarati Guha-SapirPublished in: PloS one (2019)
Hospital stay was particularly long in this sample in comparison to other studies on earthquake victims, indirectly indicating the high burden TUTH had to bear to treat these patients. To strengthen resilience, tertiary hospitals should have preparedness plans to cope with a large influx of injured patients after a large-scale disaster, in particular for the initial days when there is limited external aid.