This is a real-world medical entrance exam question, please give the true answer based on the question and selection. Topic name: None, Subject name: Social & Preventive Medicine
[{'content': 'In disaster management all are true except- \nSelect and explain. \nA. Mitigation before a disaster strikes, B. Response in pre-disaster phase, C. Yellow color is for medium priority, D. Gastroenteritis is commonest infection after disaster', 'role': 'user'}, {'content': 'Answer: B \nExplanation: Disaster management\nManagement sequence of a sudden-onset disaster is as follows:-\na) Risk reduction phase before a disaster strikes\nIt includes:-\n\nMitigation: Measures designed either to prevent hazards from causing emergency or to lessen the likely effect of emergencies.\nPreparedness: To ensure that appropriate systems, procedures and resources are in place to provide prompt effective assistance to disaster victims.\n\nb) Disaster Impact\n\nMost injuries are sustained during the impact, and thus greatest need for emergency care occurs in first few hours.\n\nThe management can be divided into\n\nSearch, rescue and first aid: Most immediate help comes from uninjured survivors.\nField care: As many injured patients come simultaneously, emergency services should be proper in terms of priorty and numbers of facilities.\nTriage: Triage consists of classifying the injured on the basis of severity of injuries and the likely hood of their survival with prompt medical intervention.\n\nThe most common triage classification system used internationally is four colour code system\ni) Red → High priority treatment or transfer\nii) Yellow → Medium priority\niii) Green → Ambulatory patients\niv) Black → Dead or moribund patients\n4. Tagging : All patients should be identified with tags.\n5.\xa0Identification of dead : Proper respect to dead is of great importance.\nc) Recovery phase after disaster\xa0\nIt includes :-\nResponse : Response starts with disaster impact and extends in recovery phase.\nRheabilitation and reconstruction : These should lead to restoration of pre-disaster condition\n\nThe ‘control room’ is nodal center in terms of disaster management.\nThe diseases common after a disaster are: Gastroenteritis (most common),\xa0acute respiratory infections (pneumonia), leptospirosis, rabies, equine encephalitis and rickettsiosis.', 'role': 'assistant'}]