Ready to provide emergency care and treatment for patients in stormy conditions

(Baohatinh.vn) - Ha Tinh Department of Health requires medical facilities to maintain an external emergency team, prepare enough medicine and supplies to be ready to transport and provide emergency care to victims injured by storms and floods.

Ha Tinh Department of Health requires medical facilities to review and reinforce their headquarters; especially medicine warehouses, material warehouses, records warehouses, computer systems, medical equipment; take measures to prevent flooding, especially on the first floor, protect the electrical system, and ensure uninterrupted communication. Mobilize staff and workers of the unit to support families of single-parent and disadvantaged staff to reinforce their houses to prevent storms.

Medical facilities are being reinforced before storm No. 5 makes landfall.

Medical facilities check inpatients, discharge stable patients; have plans to evacuate remaining patients to solid areas that can withstand the impact of the storm. Emergency teams from outside hospitals are on duty, with full supplies of medicine and emergency equipment, ready to provide emergency care and transport victims when requested.

Mobilize human resources, ambulances, and medical supplies of the unit, be ready to handle bad situations or support other units and localities when requested. Coordinate with local authorities to send medical staff on duty at evacuation points to avoid storms to promptly examine, provide emergency care, and provide health care to prevent and control epidemics for people.

Organize environmental sanitation, disease prevention and control, ensure clean water, food safety due to storms and floods; arrange stable medical facilities for people after floods. Review and assess disease risks in areas likely to be affected by natural disasters, especially areas that may be flooded, flash floods, and landslides.

Medical stations also proactively responded to storm No. 5.

Proactively deploy disease prevention plans when situations arise. Organize monitoring, timely detection and thorough handling of infectious disease outbreaks occurring before, during and after rains, storms and floods such as: diarrhea, pink eye, respiratory tract infections, athlete's foot, flu, dengue fever, especially diseases transmitted through the digestive tract such as: diarrhea, cholera, dysentery, typhoid...

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