To develop the health services for coping with flood and typhoon

ABSTRACT

Flood and typhoon are main causes of disaster in Vietnam. To prevent and overcome consequences, the health sector should implement and perform following approaches: awareness, organization, resource, and practice, drug kits, food, fresh water and cooperation with other branches. During flood and typhoon, should organize the task teams and ambulatory health teams, cooperate with military health system, move the patients, support resources, protect material facilities and praise timely. After flood and typhoon, should control environmental sanitary and food, monitor insecticide stores, control disease outbreaks and restore the health resource.