7/27/2019 #Kashmirfloods. World Health Organisation [WHO]
Response.
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Response from the WHO Country Office for India
1. What are the main health risks during floods?
2. In the WHO's view, what are the main risks in Kashmir?
Please refer
tohttp://www.who.int/hac/techguidance/ems/floods/en/
3. There is only one hospital serving 70 lakh people. What is
the WHO's view on this in terms of patient
safety?
According to the information we have collected from various
sources, in order to mitigate the impact on
the functionality of certain major government hospitals due to
the floods, 58 mobile health clinics have
been set up in Srinagar and 4 mobile hospitals have been pressed
into service. The maternity hospital in
Srinagar has been functional and the bone and joint hospital has
re-opened a week ago. Many district
hospitals have been functioning.106 medical teams of the army
have been deployed in addition to 1Base hospital and 4 Field
hospitals. If the standard precautions are followed in all these
facilities, patient
safety may not be unduly compromised. To prevent /control public
health exigencies 2 Central PublicHealth Teams have been posted - 1
each in Jammu and Srinagar for rapid health assessment and
response by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare. A
29-member clinical team comprising of
physicians, pediatricians and gynecologists has also been
positioned in Srinagar and all medicines and
medical supplies that have been requested by the state
government have been provided. Clean-up
operations at hospitals in Srinagar have apparently started and
once electricity and water supply is
restored, these hospitals will also start taking on the patient
load in an incremental manner.
4. Does the WHO believe that UN aid/assistance should be given
to Kashmir?
5. What is the WHO's view on India's refusal to accept UN
aid.
As United Nations specialized technical agency for health WHO is
mandated to assists the national
government in the response starting from the early recovery
phase to tackle the public health
consequences of a disaster and not at the search and rescue /
relief phase. When the country has
sufficient resources and capacity to mount an effective response
in a timely manner in accordance to
the scale of the disaster, WHO assistance may be limited to
normative guidance on technical issues
related to the public health response. WHO has been in constant
communication with the Ministry of
Health and Family Welfare, Government of India and is cognizant
of the response efforts. The
government has been intervening to tackle the potential adverse
public health consequence of this
disaster especially as related to water and sanitation and
control of communicable diseases.
6. Any other information in relation to this disaster would be
useful.
Please refer
to:http://www.searo.who.int/india/areas/health_systems/JandK_floods/en/http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/252601/Floods-and-health-Fact-sheets-for-
health-professionals.pdf
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