Disaster management
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Bangladesh is a disaster prone country and has been suffering long with effects of various forms of natural disasters like, tornado, cyclone, frequent seasonal floods, tidal surges, earth sliding, earth quakes and incessant rains. The destruction and damage, economic, social and life losses resulting from these natural disasters are so big that these always hinder our economic growth and development and in many cases we have to depend on foreign aid support to survive.
A number of international aid organisations including UNDP, WFP, WHO, UNICEF come forward with various relief support programmes and activities including food, shelters, rehabilitations and repair and reconstruction after the aftermath including starting of immediate rescue operations but still sometimes the complexity and gravity of damage and destructions are so high and complicated that it takes great expertise and experienced manpower to address and handle the various services that need immediate support.
Over the years, Bangladesh has gained adequate empirical knowledge to handle and deal with such crisis in a well-defined manner.
Time has come now to enhance our expertise through practical and theoretical education and knowledge. We need to establish at least three disaster management teaching and training institutions, at Chittagong, Khulna, and Dhaka, to develop experienced manpower to work in such crisis situations.
This institutional management would help to enhance our capacity to work in such situations.
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