Experience in Providing Medical Assistance to the Population of the Amur Region Exposed to the Effects of the Flood

Abstract

Medical assistance to individuals residing in the flooded areas of the region was delivered on a priority basis throughout the health care institutions on the territorial-division principle, at the temporal accommodation sites, further on - long-term stay centers, 24-hours a day. Determined was the amount of means for specific prophylaxis, immunized was the contingent under risk, stocked up were pharmaceutical preparations, medical products and consumables. Therewith, carried out therapeutic, medical-preventive operations turned out to be on-time and sufficient for providing essential complex of medical assistance to the exposed population in the devastated areas.

Keywords

• медицинская помощь
• пункты временного размещения и длительного пребывания
• специфическая профилактика
• medical assistance
• temporal accommodation sites
• long-term stay centers
• specific prophylaxis