Disaster Preparedness Against Accidents or Terrorist Attack

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The author elaborated in this book his personal reminiscences and experiences, what he gathered from being one of the eyewitnesses of the aftermath of the world’s largest terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, when the Al-Qaida Terrorists destroyed the Twin Towers of the American Trade Center at Manhattan, New York. The author was going to his laboratory at the Beth Israel Hospital at Manhattan that day. Incidentally, the task of dealing with the aftermath of the world’s largest toxic chemical disaster, which took place in the early morning of December 3, 1984 at the Union Carbide factory at Bhopal, India, was also fell upon him. The author was the Director of ITRC, Lucknow at that time. He also had shared the sorrows and agonies of many people who lost their nearest and dearest ones, or friends and other members of their families. The lack of preparedness at all quarters made the situation worse. The incident led to a chaotic condition. The question was who and where, where to go to seek help and guidance, who is in command, how to mobilize resources etc. Everywhere there was a disorderly situation. People were bewildered, kind of speechless and flabbergasted. The author felt that there exists an urgent necessity to educate the people at all level regarding what to do under similar such circumstances. What type of preparedness they should undertake and also equip them with. The author strongly recommended that there exists a pressing need of establishing a well-planned preparedness plan all around the city to face such kind of circumstances. It must operate on wartime urgency and with equally competency. The present volume is the outcome of such a thought in order to help and educate the common citizen, the planners, administrators, law and order personnel, medical experts, hospital emergencies, philanthropic and religious organizations, and the voluntary agencies such that they get themselves organized to deal with the aftermath of such kind of incidents, man-made or otherwise.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Prasanta K. Ray

Prof. Prasanta Kumar Ray is an Internationally renowned Biomedical Scientist. He had his College and University education from the University of Calcutta, wherefrom he received his Ph.D. and Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) Degrees. He was trained both in India and USA in a wide variety of subject, such as Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Microbiology, Immunobiology, Toxicology and Environmental Sciences. Prof. Ray is a prolific writer. Apart from short popular articles on a variety of subjects, his multidisciplinary research work culminated in 217 research publications in reputed journals. He also wrote or edited 12 books and monographs, produced 8 patents and 8 PhD students. Starting his professional career as a Senior Scientist at the Biomedical Group of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, he was selected as the Director of Chittaranjan National Cancer Research Center, Calcutta at a very early age of 34 and a half. He went on serving various other Instituted as Director/Research Director, such as Bengal Immunity Research Institute, Calcutta; ADM Laboratory of Surgical Immunobiology, The Medical College of Pennsylvania and Hospital, USA; Industrial Toxicology Research Centre, Lucknow, and Bose Institute, Calcutta. Obviously, this helped him acquiring profound knowledge and personal experiences in multidisciplinary areas of Biomedical Sciences. Prof. Ray was awarded several prestigious national Awards by the Government of India, Scientific Societies, and Scientific Foundations. Scientific societies in India and abroad conferred on him their prestigious Fellowships. The Institute of Biology, London conferred on him their Fellowship, FIBIOL, for his significant contributions in Modern Biology.

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Title
Disaster Preparedness Against Accidents or Terrorist Attack
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8122417426
Length
xx+313p., Figures; Tables; References; Appendices; 25cm.
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