Support people to prevent and fight epidemics after floods

On the morning of October 11, in Hanoi, the General Department of Logistics and Technology organized a ceremony to send troops to support people in disease prevention and control after floods caused by the circulation of storm No. 11.

Three Medical Teams join in supporting people after floods.

Colonel Le Van Dong, Deputy Director of the Military Medical Department, General Department of Logistics and Technology, attended and directed the military departure ceremony.

Colonel Le Van Dong, Deputy Director of the Military Medical Department, General Department of Logistics and Technology, gave a speech at the departure ceremony.

Implementing Plan No. 5570 of the Military Medical Department on ensuring military medicine, environmental sanitation, disease prevention and control to help people after floods caused by the circulation of storm No. 11 in Military Region 1 and Hanoi City; Plan No. 6139 of the General Staff/General Department of Logistics and Technology on ensuring military medicine to support people after floods caused by the circulation of storm No. 11 in Military Region 1 has been approved.

Scene of the military departure ceremony.

The General Department of Logistics established 3 Medical Teams to ensure security in 3 locations: Medical Team No. 1 on duty in Linh Son Ward, Thai Nguyen Province; Medical Team No. 2 on duty in Yen Binh Commune, Lang Son Province; Medical Team No. 3 on duty in Tien Luc Commune, Bac Ninh Province.

Colonel Le Van Dong encouraged the military medical force to perform the task of supporting people in disease prevention and control in Military Region 1.

The key task is to coordinate with the Military Medical Force of Military Region 1 and the medical staff of Thai Nguyen, Lang Son, and Bac Ninh provinces to deploy disinfection spraying, environmental treatment, and domestic water treatment in residential areas, schools, medical stations, public areas, and long-term flooded areas; instruct people to collect and bury garbage and animal carcasses, and clear sewers.

Equipment was loaded onto the vehicle by medical staff.

Focus on preventing and combating common diseases after floods such as acute diarrhea, pink eye, dermatitis, dengue fever, intestinal diseases, diseases caused by polluted water; organize propaganda for people to eat cooked food and drink boiled water, maintain personal hygiene, and not use polluted water. Conduct epidemiological surveillance, early detection, localization, and timely treatment if there are signs of disease outbreaks.

Military medical staff transfer Choloramin B, a water disinfectant, to the vehicle.

Coordinate with local military medical forces to organize mobile medical teams to go to isolated villages, hamlets, and residential areas to examine patients, provide medicine, and provide disease prevention instructions to people. Support local authorities in vaccination, disinfection, and distribution of medical supplies and disease prevention drugs. Ensure military medical support for the forces of the units on duty.

Troops deployed to support people in disease prevention and control after floods caused by storm No. 11 in Military Region 1.

Speaking at the departure ceremony, Colonel Le Van Dong requested the 3 Medical Teams to be proactive, urgent, and promptly present at the damaged areas as soon as possible to grasp the situation and immediately deploy epidemic prevention and control measures. Close coordination and cooperation between units, Military Region 1 Medical Corps and relevant local functional forces.

Alum made in water is transported by truck.

Deploy measures appropriate to the actual situation, ensure safety for the task force and the people; assign specific forces, control progress, and promptly synthesize and report results.

Medical teams are ready to move on duty.

The Deputy Director of the Military Medical Department believes that with the careful preparation and high sense of responsibility of the comrades in the 3 Military Medical Teams together with the Military Medical Force of Military Region 1 and local medical staff, the comrades will wholeheartedly serve the people, providing timely and effective medical support to the people, without making the people have to call the army to respond; contributing to beautifying the image of the Military Medical Soldiers, Uncle Ho's Soldiers; the Propaganda Army, the army working in peacetime.

Ninh Co-Huong Tu Giang-The Dai

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