Holistic Care for Loss and Grief Resulting from Disasters(Assistance Programs of the Great East Japan Earthquake)

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  • Murakami Noriko
    Department of Psychosomatic Internal Medicine, Kobe Red Cross Hospital

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  • 災害における喪失・悲嘆への全人的ケア(東日本大震災支援プログラム,2011年,第52回日本心身医学会総会ならびに学術講演会(横浜))
  • 災害における喪失・悲嘆への全人的ケア
  • サイガイ ニ オケル ソウシツ ・ ヒタン エ ノ ゼン ジンテキ ケア

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Abstract

The Kobe Red Cross Hospital's Department of Psychosomatic Internal Medicine was founded in 1996 with the purpose of treating physical and psychological problems in people who were victims of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in January, 1995. For the past 15 years, I have attended to the victims of such natural disasters. After the Niigata-Chuetsu Earthquake disaster in 2004, I was sent there as a relief doctor from the Hyogo Chapter of the Japan Red Cross Society. Based on these experiences, we think it is important for victims to be provided continuing physical, psychological, social and spiritual care for a long time after the disaster. In a disaster, victims experience many losses at the same time. Notably in the recent Great East Japan Earthquake disaster, victims experienced the following complex problems : loss of their homes and household effects from the tsunami, bereavement for their families and friends, personal injuries and disease, unemployment and economical loss, loss of their communities and hometowns where they lived for so long, and the loss caused by the nuclear power plant accident. In particular, the grief of the bereaved is deep and complex. When the bereaved cannot actually see the departed, the grief of the bereaved becomes even more complicated. Long-term grief care will be necessary for the people in the disaster areas.

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