Saturday, 18 April 2015

AEHO Duty on flood


Assistant of Environmental Health Officer duty on flood

Before the flood

  • Providing "Bilik Gerakan Banjir" in term of room and equipment.
  • Visit and evaluating area for temporary evacuation place for flood's victim
  • Evaluating high risk area based on history and experience in order to prevent any outbreak or diseases

During the flood

  • Contact and follows the order of Commander Operation Disaster at State level
  • Making sure the preparation in any level standby and ready to move when the time needs
  • Monitoring the temporary evacuation for flood victims.
  • Monitoring infectious diseases especially water-bourne and food-bourne diseases
  • Monitoring the condition of the flood and public health needed within the situation of the flood.

After the flood

  • Receive reports and monitor the situation in the region was hit by floods in terms of an increased incidence of infectious diseases, especially water-borne diseases
  • Taking preventive measures of infectious diseases with safe drinking water supply and sanitation, sanitary food preparation, health advice and other related issues.
  • Improving health advice and education to the public regarding control measures to prevent infectious diseases, especially in the area that has been flooded.
  • Provides the latest report on the situation with flooding affecting public health action is taken, the weaknesses that have been identified and recommendations made for future action
  • Estimate and advise the type of assistance that should be given to rehabilitate infrastructure of public health services such as safe water supply, sanitation, sewage disposal in sanitary and other facilities related
  • Improving health advice and education to the public regarding control measures to prevent infectious diseases, especially in the area that has been hit by floods
  • Advising the public that water storage area does not become mosquito breeding and the potential for the spread of dengue fever

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