The scientific programme includes:

Fire disaster:

- The definition, prevention, dynamics, and evaluation of fire disaster
- Analysis of the need for primary emergency care
- Local rescue organization, planning and evaluation

- Natural wild fire disaster
- Combined natural/man-made disaster
- Industrial disaster
- Domestic fire emergencies
- Urban disaster
- Conflict - conventional and nuclear war
- Other fires

- Training
- Education of volunteer groups and other associations for pre-hospital care
- Public education and training for self-sufficiency and primary health care in fire disaster
- Training for out-patient and in-hospital personnel in emergency rescue
- Training of specialists

- Search and rescue
- Organizational logistics
- Medical and surgical treatment on the spot in general hospitals, and in specialized bum units
- Psychosocial problems

- Thi mass media in fire disaster information
- The role of the media in public education
- International organizations in fire disaster mitigation
- The role of national organizations
- The 1990-2000 International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction

For further information contact:

Ist International Conference on Bums and Fire Disasters
c/o Divisione Chirurgica Plastica e Terapia delle Ustioni Ospedale Civico
- 90125 Palermo, Italy
Tel. (91) 596404 - 423427
Fax (+ 39.91) 596404

The 1989 MBC Scholarships for Physicians, Nurses and Relevant Health Personnel have been awarded.
In accordance with the programme of MBC activities and in the intention of promoting interchange between the various countries, 10 Scholarships are officially announced, to be shared between physicians, nurses and all those interested in the problem of bums.
Each Scholarship is worth four million lire.
The Scholarship winners must attend for the period of one month a Centre specialized in bums in a country belonging to the MBC.
For the year 1988 seven Scholarships were awarded, as many as there were candidates. Thus in 1989 13 scholarships were awarded.

The winners were:
AMER M.D. (Syria)
DLIMI M.D. (Tunisia)
ELESSAWY M.D. (Egypt)
FADI M.D. (Lebanon)
YAGUIT Ms (Israel)
YOUCDAR M.D. (Algeria)
MACHARKJI Ms (Syria)
MUCERA Ms (Italy)
OURZIK M.D. (Morocco)
PEDERGNANA Mr (Italy)
SALEM Mr (Tunisia)
STELLA M.D. (Italy)
TSUTSON M.D. (Greece)

The Scholarships not taken up will be competed for in 1990.