Health Impacts of Mass causality

Health Impacts of Mass causality Incidents

Mass causality incidents can also affects the heath care personals police forces and the public which witnesses the incidents directly or through telecast.

The impacts may be last for short perid of time or for long term. The health  effects can be acute subacut  or it may be a chronic one. Most of the effects, in this people are mind related and even may have mental and physical fatigues. Some time chance of acquiring hepatitis and HIV viral infections while handling the injured people at the site of the incidents are also possible. Rarely these people are affected by chemicals and radiations at the site of the mass casualty  when these agents are used for the act for the incidents