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·        Daily Surveillance Form.xls (32 kb)

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Cyclone Nargis

 

 

 

 

WHO reaches out to the worst affected people in Myanmar

The World Health Organization has opened three field offices in Labutta, Bogale and Pathein/ Myaungmya. These field offices will coordinate with the township health officials, hospitals and health agencies to provide a more location-specific response. According to UN estimates, 260000 people were affected in Bogale, and 190 000 in Labutta.

A joint WHO and Myanmar Ministry of Health mobile health team has returned after a week-long mission to Ngaputaw, Labutta and Bogale. This team gathered information on 126 of 162 tuberculosis patients missing since the cyclone, through intense community participation in villages and camps. This is an important intervention to prevent treatment interruption and emergence of multi-drug resistance. Myanmar is one of the 22 TB high burden countries with 133,000 registered TB patients in 2007, an estimated 10% of those co-infected with TB/HIV.

WHO in collaboration with Myanmar Ministry of Health and Health cluster partners is launching a joint plan for Dengue control and prevention. This plan will target 26 townships in the cyclone affected areas of Myanmar and will benefit more than 900 000 house hold.

"Since Dengue is endemic in Myanmar, we need to have a more aggressive approach to dengue control and prevention in the aftermath of the cyclone. The Dengue action plan will serve as a framework for all health partners. Our objective is to prevent dengue outbreaks through effective disease surveillance and vector control" said Dr. Adik Wibowo, WHO representative to Myanmar.

WHO is working with the Myanmar Ministry of Health to continue training of health workers in dengue control and case management. This plan includes larviciding at a massive scale to control the mosquitoes. The larviciding will be done over 2-3 weeks and will be repeated after 8 weeks. This is the first time larviciding at such a huge scale has been undertaken in Myanmar. The Ministry of Health will conduct training on fogging, spraying and larvae control in Pathein on 19 - 20 June. Local communities are being made aware of simple precautions to prevent dengue.

WHO’s weekly bulletin on disease surveillance is now providing a clearer picture of diseases in the cyclone affected areas. Almost all health partners are providing information from the field to the bulletin through the Early Warning, Alert and Response System (EWARS). The latest bulletin reported 1191 cases of acute respiratory infections, 863 cases of acute diarrhea and 708 cases of trauma/injuries, among others, for the period of 8-14 June in the cyclone affected areas. Accordingly WHO has distributed medicines and guidelines on treatment of watery diarrhea to doctors and hospital staff working in the affected areas.

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US$28 million Myanmar healthcare plan launched

The World Health Organization and its Health Cluster partners in Myanmar have approved a six-month US$28 million action plan to provide immediate health care for cyclone survivors, and support longer-term efforts to rebuild the country’s ravaged health care system.

The Health Cluster Joint Plan of Action addresses the humanitarian needs of communities affected by Cyclone Nargis in the Ayeyarwady Delta region and Yangon, with a particular focus on people living in temporary shelters and relocation sites…

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