As BC Renal and the Emergency Management Committee continue advocating for increased emergency preparedness, we also reflect on valuable lessons from previous years. Last fall, the Emergency Management Committee (in collaboration with Health Emergency Management BC) hosted a provincial emergency response tabletop exercise, simulating a real–time earthquake response scenario over a full day.
During the exercise, participants were guided by BC Renal’s Emergency Management Plan; they subsequently used their learnings to identify areas of improvement for planning documents and future instances where emergency response exercises would be effective. This initiative and others informed the ongoing refinement of BC Renal’s emergency preparedness resources and our organizational approach to emergency planning and management.
