Health disaster management
Key responsibilities
NT Health has responsibility for the leadership, management and coordination of these two response and recovery roles.
| Role | Responsibility |
|---|
| Medical
Response Group | - coordinate and control the mobilisation of all health responses to emergencies when emergency/counter disaster arrangements are activated. This includes:
- hospital
- medical
- nursing
- retrieval
- first aid
- pharmaceutical supplies
- mental health service.
- laboratory services:
- diagnostic
- monitoring
- therapeutic services.
|
| Public
Health Response and Recovery Group | - environmental health including:
- monitoring water quality
- monitoring food safety
- public health advice on refuse disposal, sewage, vermin and vector control
- radiation hazards
- medicines and poisons
- hygiene and sanitation aspects of emergency shelter and housing
- personal hygiene, disinfection and coordination and control of all public health information responses.
- Disease control including:
- communicable disease risk assessment
- infection control
- advice on storage of deceased
- development of immunisation policies
- monitoring disease trends.
|
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