World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia

Nepal: The Work of WHO in Emergency Preparedness and Response

Publications

 

A Structural Vulnerability Assessment of Hospitals in Kathmandu Valley

Complete Book [PDF 7.6 MB]

 

Cover Page [PDF 76 KB]

Message from Honourable Minister of Health [PDF 96 KB]

Foreword and Preface [PDF 91 KB]

Acknowledgement [PDF 39 KB]

 

Introduction [PDF 62 KB]

Objectives and Goals [PDF 54 KB]

Approach [PDF 143 KB]

Methodology [PDF 99 KB]

Seismic Hazard and Design Ground Motion [PDF 196 KB]

Evaluation of the earthquake performance of Hospitals in Kathmandu valley [PDF 352 KB]

Recommendations for improving the structural design of new Hospitals [PDF 252 KB]

Recommendations for improving Earthquake response in the Health sector [PDF 147 KB]

Programme for improving the Earthquake resilience of existing Hospitals [PDF 248 KB]

Additional contributions and comments made by NSET [PDF 630 KB]

 

Appendix 1 – Building local capacities in Nepal [PDF 77 KB]

Appendix 2 – Evaluation of the Earthquake performance of ordinary buildings in Kathmandu valley [PDF 286 KB]

Appendix 3 – Earthquake mass casualty simulation [PDF 59 KB]

Appendix 4 – Soil Liquefaction evaluation [PDF 467 KB]

Appendix 5 – Site effect evaluation [PDF 113 KB]

Appendix 6 - Definition of terms [PDF 205 KB]

Appendix 7 – Structural Vulnerability assessment of BIR Hospital [PDF 993 KB]

Appendix 8 – Structural Vulnerability assessment of ARMY Hospital [PDF 664 KB]

Appendix 9 – Structural Vulnerability assessment of Teaching Hospital [PDF 798 KB]

Appendix 10 – Structural Vulnerability assessment of PATAN Hospital [PDF 811 KB]

Appendix 11 – Structural Vulnerability assessment of Bhaktapur Hospital [PDF 661 KB]

 

References [PDF 105 KB]

 

Back

 

| | | | | |