Challenges of communication system during emergency disaster response in Malaysia: A review
Sahar Azmani, Norsham Juliana, Alzamani Mohammad Idrose, Nur Azma Amin, Ahmad Shakir Mohd Saudi · Journal of Fundamental and Applied Sciences · 2018
The purpose of this review is to provide the overview of available systems and potentialfuture systems for communication during disaster in Malaysia. Electronic searches in majorsubject loci databases such as MEDLINE (via PUBMED), Ovid, Science Direct, Scopus,IEEE Xplore digital library and Springer are used in conducting the reviews. The majorchallenge is to integrate between readily available communications systems at pre-disaster,during disaster and post-disaster. Therefore, this review will further provide information forthe policy makers, responsible personnel as well as researchers on the vulnerability of thecommunication systems during disaster and the future direction of effective communicationsystem in Malaysia.Keywords: disaster; communication system;GIRN; effective communication system;emergency medicine.