Notice on health and epidemic prevention work at the earthquake area in Yunnan’s Ludian county

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Updated: 2014-08-15

Focus on key links and implement various prevention and control measures

The health administration should earnestly implement measures on prevention and control of cholera, dysentery, hepatitis A, typhoid fever, measles, epidemic encephalitis B, tuberculosis and other key infectious diseases. Work has to be done to strengthen population immunity condition assessment, conduct timely emergency vaccination and resume routine immunizations as soon as possible to prevent outbreaks of infectious disease. Medical and health organizations in the disaster area should enhance infection disease supervision and inspection, check drinking water facilities to ensure water supply, and step up efforts in monitoring drinking water quality and emergency food supply in areas with high victim concentration. A patriotic health campaign should be widely carried out to address environmental health problems, enhance feces management and harmless treatment, and clean out vector breeding places. Health administration should ensure the reserve and supply of sterilization drugs; conduct scientific control of rats, mosquitos and flies; and assign special personnel to deal with rubbish, wastewater, human and animal excrement.

Strengthen health publicity and raise public awareness of disease prevention

The health administration in the disaster area should base actions on local circumstances, issue publicity brochures and drawings, and apply mobile publicity vans to spread relevant post-disaster health knowledge, especially knowledge on infectious disease prevention and control, food safety, foodborne disease prevention and treatment, environmental health, drinking water and hygiene.

Strengthen personnel training and carry out post-disaster psychological counseling

The health administration should carry out post-disaster psychological counseling training for medical personnel and actively coordinate the local education and civil affairs department, communist youth league and Red Cross to pick skilled professionals to offer psychological crisis intervention for victims in the disaster area.

Earnestly conduct evaluation and prepare for post-disaster reconstruction

Public health institutes in the disaster area should assess disaster development as soon as possible and arrange for experts to help formulate a reconstruction work plan. They should make early deployments of reconstruction preparation.

General Office of the National Health and Family Planning Commission

August 2014