Emergency Management

Emergency Management

Humanitarian Logistics Planning of a Service Supply Chain for Mobile Hospitals in Crisis Condition with Prioritizing Areas

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Amin Farahbakhsh 1
Parvaneh Samouei 2
1 دانشگاه بوعلی سینا
2 assistant professor, department of industrial engineering, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran
Abstract
One of the most significant issues nowadays is natural disasters and their severe and devastating vital and financial effect. As in crisis situations, the time required to service and deliver relief goods is extremely limited, therefore, with regard to existing restrictions, the need to define special conditions for relief with a view to alleviating casualties is clearly evident. This research in the scope of a service supply chain defines a vital mobile medical service system based on the definition of mobile hospitals that serve patients with medical priorities in the affected areas. The two objectives of minimizing relief cost and service time, which are based on economic and social criteria, respectively, are intended to define the distribution locations, the optimal route of hospital delivery, and also the capacity of hospitals to serve in case of casualty. The problem model is solved using the constraint method by considering the objective function of the service time as the main objective, and the Pareto frontier of the model solution is presented.
Keywords
Multi-Objective Programming
Crisis Situation
Mobile Hospital
Service Supply Chain
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  • Receive Date 12 December 2019
  • Revise Date 05 March 2020
  • Accept Date 16 September 2020