Medical response
The mobile health fleet redirected for consultation, medicines and outbreak screening.
Overview
Disasters disrupt healthcare exactly when it is needed most — clinics may be damaged, staff displaced, and medicine supplies cut off, while injury, illness and waterborne disease risks all rise. Medical response in this context means redirecting mobile health units into the affected area to run consultations, dispense medicines and screen for the outbreaks that tend to follow flooding or overcrowded relief camps. It is health work adapted to emergency conditions rather than a routine clinic day.
- Mobile units
- Outbreak screening
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The mobile health fleet redirected for consultation, medicines and outbreak screening.