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[www.alertnet.com]
Some advice to agencies re reducing Cholera risk - preventive steps.
(culled
from WASH Cluster alert sent out yesterday):

Please share with local Haiti NGOs
serving camps, displaced persons settlements* *

WASH Cluster Mobilization
Suggestions for Preventive Measures

*DINEPA and WASH Cluster recommend all WASH agencies working in
displacement sites and neighbourhoods in the metropolitan area
immediately
follow these priority measures to reduce public health risks. These
measures
should be carried out purely as preventive measure and care should be
taken
not to generate alarm or cause panic:*

*- Ensure that all water supplies, particularly those distributed by
water
truck, are chlorinated to at least 0.5mg/l free chlorine residual.*

*- Clean and disinfected all community latrines and their surroundings
with
chlorine-containing products several times per day.*

*- Ensure access to soap.*

*- Intensify hygiene promotion efforts in particularly hand washing with
soap, the importance of safe drinking water, and the dangers of open
defecation.*

*DINEPA and the WASH Cluster reminds all partners that any case of acute
watery diarrhea must be referred to health structures without delay.*

*Additional information will be communicated on a regular basis to the
WASH
partners.*

*Port - au Prince, 21st October 2010

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Posted By poxvox to Haiti Vox at 10/23/2010 12:37:00 PM