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DGHS issues 8 directives for flood-hit areas
GreenWatch Desk
Health
2024-08-22, 10:32pm
The Directorate General of Health Services has issued eight directives for flood-hit areas including keeping control rooms open round- the- clock at all offices of civil surgeons and upazila health and family planning officers .
Other directives include: Medical teams along with first-aid facilities should be formed and kept ready round the clock for responding to disaster.Appropriate preparations should be kept at healthcare facilities in flood-hit areas for dealing with possible health risks including diarrhea, snake-biting and flood-related other diseases.
A massive quality of water purification tablets, oral saline, anti-venoms should be kept stored.Urgent and necessary medical equipments, first-aid and ambulances should be kept ready.
All physicians, nurses and other officers and employees in flood-hit areas cannot leave work stations without receiving permission from divisional director (health), reports BSS.