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(2) Data (including finger prints and digital photographs) on all patients to be
collected by NADRA.
(3) Hospitals ensure the provision of continued care to them in the centres.
(4) Patients fully recovered being sent to shelter homes/ transit camp or back to
their house.
(5) Patients‟ data should be submitted to the Ministry of Health, NDMA etc.
(6) In the case of fully recovered orphans, destitute women and the disabled, they
would be handed over to Ministry of Social Welfare and Special Education.
b. Disease Early Warning System 20 . Surveillance is the best way to detect and monitor
outbreaks of disease, and it allows to preventive measures to be put in place before
full-scale epidemics occur. The WHO defines surveillance as „ongoing systematic
collection, collation, analysis and interpretation of data; and dissemination to those who
need to know in order that action may be taken‟. The Disease Early Warning System
specifically tracks the outbreak of diseases such as cholera, typhoid and malaria. The
main goal of the system is to minimize the morbidity and mortality due to
communicable diseases by detecting epidemics at the earliest possible stages. Under
the DEWS, one Medical Officer and one laboratory technician at each basic health
facility are given training to focus on the suspected signs and symptoms rather than the
probable or the confirmed cases. This information is passed on to district and then
provincial level. Simultaneously, health department and humanitarian organizations
conduct health assessment in the affected area to understand the situation on ground
and develop plan accordingly.
c. Checklist - Assessment of Health Services
20 World Health Organization
(1) Get available socio economic and geographical information on the disaster
affected population and health profile of the affected area.
(2) Determine the total disaster affected population and proportion of children
under 5 years.
(3) Determine age and sex breakdown of the population.
(4) Determine the average household size and estimates of female, elderly and
child headed households.
(5) Identify groups at increased risk, e.g. women, children, older and disabled
persons, people living with HIV/AIDS, and disadvantaged groups of ethnic,
religious minority and other social groups.
(6) Recognize pre existing health problems and priorities in the disasters affected
areas prior to the disaster.