The Chinese Center for Disease Control recently released the "Summer 2020 Public Health Risk Assessment Report on Flood Disasters", which analyzes that China's epidemic prevention and control has entered a normal mode, and the possibility of outbreaks of new crown pneumonia due to flood disasters is low everywhere. The pneumonia epidemic has limited impact on disaster emergency preparedness and response. Nevertheless, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention still recommends that all levels of disease control agencies develop and develop guidelines for emergency treatment of new cases of pneumonitis in disaster areas in advance.
Since the beginning of summer this year, there have been persistent heavy rains in many places in my country, and some provinces and cities have been hit by floods. The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention has closely followed the national summer flood disaster situation and forecast information, kept in touch with the disease control agencies of severely affected provinces in a timely manner, understood the disaster situation and post-disaster health and prevention work, and conducted a preliminary assessment of the public health risks that may occur in the affected areas. .
According to the report, this summer's strong rainfall process in our country has a long duration and local extreme precipitation. Therefore, flood disasters in most areas are mainly caused by mountain floods, and some cities have suffered from internal waterlogging due to the rapid increase in short-term precipitation. After the floods subsided, all regions actively carried out drainage, dredging and environmental cleaning.
It is understood that this summer's flood disaster has caused a significant decrease in the number of emergency resettlement population compared with previous years. Most disaster-stricken provinces have a shorter centralized resettlement time after the disaster. At present, there are no large-scale centralized resettlement sites, and the public health risks caused by centralized resettlement are low. In most areas, the focus of post-disaster health and epidemic prevention work has shifted to the gradual restoration of the original basic public health services in communities and towns.
However, the disaster area is currently in a period of high temperature in summer. Combining the characteristics of flood and waterlogging disasters, the disaster area may face potential epidemic threats of intestinal infectious diseases, vector-borne infectious diseases and respiratory infectious diseases.
It is understood that the post-disaster drinking water supply and food supply modes in the disaster area have gradually returned to the pre-disaster mode, and the disaster-stricken provinces did not report disaster-related public health incidents in June. Therefore, the current intestines caused by insecure drinking water and food The risk of infectious diseases has not changed significantly from before the disaster. Summer is not the epidemic season of respiratory infectious diseases in southern my country, and schools have entered the summer vacation one after another. After the disaster, there are fewer people in the centralized settlement, and the chance of gathering people in the disaster-stricken areas is reduced.
The report analyzes that the spread of new coronavirus in my country is basically blocked, and epidemic prevention and control have entered the normal mode. There is a low probability of outbreaks of new coronary pneumonia outbreaks in various places due to floods and floods. At this stage, new coronary pneumonia outbreaks have limited impact on disaster emergency preparedness and response. The CDC recommends that CDCs at all levels develop and formulate requirements for disaster health emergency response in different scenarios in advance, such as hygienic requirements for setting up centralized resettlement sites after disasters, requirements for health monitoring at resettlement sites, and protection requirements for post-disaster health and epidemic prevention work, As well as emergency treatment guidelines for new cases of pneumonia in disaster areas. At the same time, it is necessary to actively carry out disaster health emergency preparedness work, including carrying out timely disaster public health thematic risk assessments, strengthening the emergency guards' duty maintenance, and preparing emergency supplies, especially the preparation of personal protective equipment. In addition, various forms of health education activities should be carried out in areas such as disaster risk reduction and post-disaster health and disease prevention.
In terms of emergency preparedness for flood and waterlogging disasters, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention will regularly communicate with relevant agencies such as the National Disaster Reduction Center of the Ministry of Emergency Management to timely grasp the disaster situation and forecast information; at the same time, strengthen liaison and communication with the disease control agencies of the affected provinces. After obtaining disaster information, timely understand the local disaster situation and post-disaster health emergency work, and provide necessary technical support. In addition, the Natural Disaster Advance Team of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention will strengthen emergency duty and require strict duty discipline, standardizing leave and replacement systems to ensure the orderly execution of emergency duty. After obtaining the disaster situation, the health emergency center immediately notified the advance team members by telephone, WeChat, etc. to ensure that they could go to the scene to carry out the health response at any time.
Beijing Daily Client Reporter Liu Huan