Implementation of Fire Safety Using Quality Protocols in Port Said Private Hospital.

El Shafey, Adel Mohamed; Mahmoud, Lamis Amr Adel Ali; EL Zeney, Rana Salah; Abo Bkr, Amany Yahya; Idris, Ahmed Momdouh; Ghoniem, Toka Kamal; El Beliessy, Hady Khaled

doi:10.21608/muj.2021.61475.1041

Implementation of Fire Safety Using Quality Protocols in Port Said Private Hospital.

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ General Director of AL Soliman Hospital, Consultant of OBS/GYNE

² Dermatology Resident, Universal Health Insurance, Egyptian Ministry of Health

³ Director of Chairman's office, AL Soliman Hospital, Port Said

⁴ Family Medicine Resident, Omar Bin Al-Khattab Medical Center.

⁵ Pharmacist, Quality specialist, Al Soliman Hospital

⁶ Pharmacist, El Nasr Specialized Hospital

⁷ Dentist, Omar Bin Al-Khattab Medical Center

10.21608/muj.2021.61475.1041

Abstract

Background: The most important necessity in any hospital is that it does not cause any harm to the patient. In order to achieve this, hospital management needs to envision a specific set of standards and regulate them to function and they must not deviate from the safety standards envisioned by the administrative bodies. Starting from building of the hospitals to their operating system, many procedures must be followed to avoid risks specially ﬁre. Hospitals contain a variety of substances that can contribute to fire events.
Aim of the study: Implementation a complete firefighting and alarm system for the hospital to make a safe with no fire hospital.
Methodology: To identify the need for this project, the following methods are going to be done:
First: five stages of 6 sigma approach: Define: study and understand how to protect hospital against fire by using the Egyptian code. Measure: develop process map, conduct time study. Analyze: the collected data and statistical analysis Improve: identify potential causes of delay. Control: recommendation and improvement using managerial process of analysis.
Second: SWOT, TWOS, ETOP.
Third: Fish-bone diagram.
Conclusion: It can be concluded that hospital management has a prime responsibility toward safety of patients by implementing control measures to fire accidents. Impact of fire could be reduced with proper and ideal safety management in hospital building. Every single employee of a hospital shall follow her/his responsibility during fire emergencies and try to save as many potential victims as possible without waiting for instructions.

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