Click a brick: Drive for safe hospitals in disasters

Interactive digital campaign for World Health Day invited supporters to join in virtually rebuilding destroyed hospitals.

The Click-a-Brick interactive online campaign for the World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia Region brought together multisectoral stakeholders to discuss the need make hospitals safe from disasters.

Results

• More than 224,000 Facebook users supported the campaign.
• Campaign contributed to September 2009 commitment by WHO’s Member State Ministers to adopt the Kathmandu Declaration on Protecting Health Facilities from Disasters.
• In response to campaign, governments and hospitals India, Indonesia, and Nepal took actions to reduce disaster risk of health facilities.