Population Notification Concerning Sanitary-Epidemiological Situation and Current Sanitary Anti-Epidemic Operations (Prophylactic Measures) in the Period of Flood in the Amur Region

Abstract

Displayed are the results of work of the Rospotrebnadzor Administration in the Amur Region in view of the population notification concerning sanitary-epidemiological situation and current anti-epidemic operations under the emergency event preconditioned by the large-scale high water, 2013. In order to avoid aggravation of epidemiological situation in the region, Rospotrebnadzor Administration has performed provision of the exposed population in the devastated territories (including temporal accommodation sites) with the information on the significance of adherence to personal safety practices for infectious diseases prevention, of usage high quality drinking water only (boiled or bottled and distilled), of immunization against viral hepatitis A, typhoid fever and Sonne dysentery, of sanitation activities in the lodgings, back yards, wells, as well as of holding to the discipline of rodent-born infection prevention. On-time notification of the population under emergency conditions benefited to the reduction of risks associated with aggravation of sanitary-epidemiological situation in the exposed territories.

Keywords

• чрезвычайная ситуация
• наводнение
• информирование населения
• амурская область
• emergency situation
• high water
• notification of the population
• the amur region