What do we expect from national burn patient federation members?
Statistics and why? The first step in policy and decision making is getting the right data from the right people.
The targets of this are clear:
To increase the knowledge amongst EU decision makers of burn injuries and fatalities, about what caused them (analysis) and about what we can do to prevent them ( fire safety issues). This will be done by collecting complete and reliable EU burn injury and fatalities statistics in order to improve EU policy and regulations on burn prevention activities (smoke detection, fire safety of consumer products, domestic escape plans) and after care (reimbursement support for patients). EBCA will set a focus on the areas where the most burn injuries and fatalities occur to be able to decrease the number of burn fatalities every year.
EBCA wants to know first about the number of fires, domestic and non domestic.
Burn patients are, in Europe, classified in four different ways, depending on the source that gathers them:
- fire fighters
- hospitals
- rehab centers
- insurance companies
None of these four sources is consistent with one of the others, which does not allow the EU policy makers as well as national governments to make the right decisions regarding fire safety, prevention, hospital and after care, etc.
To Bringing on useful contacts of other organizations from all countries in the European Union that might be interesting in broadening the network of EBCA or the knowledge of EBCA
To collect useful information to put on the website EBCA about all aspects that concern burn patients
To talk about EBCA to your politician of your country and to insist to get help for the burned peoples and that they, on their side do the same to other politician from other states or countries
To inform us about the evolution, the realizations achievements of your organization, so other partnering burn patient organizations could learn from it.
To give us a link to your website so everybody can see where your organization is situated and what you are doing.
To give us your monthly or yearly journal so we can scan it put on the EBCA website.
To inform us about the cur camps in your country.
