DGHS issues 8 directives for flood-hit areas

The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) 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 diarrhoea, 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 equipment, first-aid and ambulances should be kept ready.

All physicians, nurses and other officers and employees in flood-hit areas cannot leave workstations without receiving permission from divisional director (health).