Tanaka Soichiro
Department of Pediatric Neurology, Takuto Rehabilitation Center for Children, Japan.
Brain Dev. 2013 Mar;35(3):209-13. doi: 10.1016/j.braindev.2012.09.008. Epub 2013 Jan 11.
Relative to their numbers, more than twice the number of disabled children fell victim to the Great East Japan Earthquake than did normal people. It was important to find out needs and provide support, as the needs of disabled children vulnerable to the disaster, such as a shortage of diapers of the right size for disabled children in the affected areas, were not given priority. In addition, the role of coordinators to spread word of who needed what and where, and linking this to specific support, was important. Regions and authorities need to determine how disabled children are to be evacuated in a disaster. Each household should prepare, as disaster prevention measures, their own private power generator and carry medical information for oral or other medicine. Each region should prepare, as a local disaster measure, welfare evacuation areas for disabled children. One thing that was felt acutely in this recent disaster is that disaster preparations and manuals need to be revised from the point of view of welfare, and that the most reliable people were those who, whether as assisters or the assisted, were involved with the disabled on a daily basis from before the disaster. The existence of disabled children as a familiar part of society, and supporting agencies networking based around the children as part of normal operations, plays a very large part. Raising children as part of their local communities is the biggest factor in saving them from disasters.
相对于他们的数量而言，在东日本大地震中，残疾儿童成为受害者的人数是正常人的两倍多。了解需求并提供支持很重要，因为易受灾害影响的残疾儿童的需求，如受灾地区缺乏适合残疾儿童尺寸的尿布，没有得到优先考虑。此外，协调员宣传谁需要什么以及在哪里，并将其与具体支持联系起来的作用很重要。各地区和当局需要确定在灾难中如何疏散残疾儿童。每个家庭都应准备自己的私人发电机作为防灾措施，并携带医疗信息，包括口服药或其他药品。每个地区都应作为地方灾害应对措施，为残疾儿童准备福利疏散区。在最近这场灾难中深切感受到的一点是，需要从福利角度修订灾难准备工作和手册，而且最可靠的人是那些无论是作为协助者还是被协助者，在灾难发生前就每天与残疾人打交道的人。残疾儿童作为社会熟悉的一部分而存在，以及围绕这些儿童建立起作为日常运作一部分的支持机构网络，发挥着非常重要的作用。让儿童在当地社区成长是使他们免遭灾难的最大因素。
