Bodies are subject to hygienic treatment, and more than 30 sanitary and epidemiological emergency response teams will be stationed in the various disaster areas
An epidemiological staff member was spraying disinfectant at the parking place of the remains of a victim in Beichuan yesterday. Xinhua News Agency
A reporter "We are going to the Civil Affairs Department immediately to make a preliminary determination of the distribution of the victims in the various disaster areas." Yesterday afternoon at 14:00, the Sichuan Provincial Department of Health earthquake relief headquarters, the Ministry of Health, deputy director of the CDC Xiao Donglou held an emergency meeting to discuss the post-earthquake disaster area corpses handling health norms, prevention and control of corpses left for a long time to rot and contaminate the environment leading to post-disaster epidemics.
Corpse disposal must have epidemic prevention personnel present
At the same time, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and around the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of 100 members of the emergency health epidemic prevention team, is on its way to Sichuan. Together with the 140 who already arrived on the 15th, they were scheduled to be assigned to various disaster areas late yesterday to work with rescue teams to sanitize the bodies.
Shaw Donglou said that in order to prevent the spread of bacteria or viruses, the bodies of all the victims will be handled in a centralized manner on the spot, cremated as much as possible if there are conditions, and buried on the spot if the conditions are lacking, but there must be sanitary and epidemiological personnel on the spot to deal with the bodies hygienically in advance, and to carry out the protection and disinfection of the environment at the same time.
Wang Guoqiang, vice minister of health, said the main problem in preventing epidemics after the disaster is the possible contamination of water and air by corpses left lying around for a long time, while many bacteria and viruses may be spread among the population as the temperature rises.
Disaster area corpse handling norms are being developed
It is reported that the Chinese CDC is currently referring to the Tangshan earthquake after the corpse hygiene treatment process and Guangdong Province's hygienic treatment of corpses norms, the development of post-earthquake disaster areas in Sichuan corpse handling health and epidemic prevention norms.
Sichuan Provincial Department of Health said yesterday it had sent nine epidemic prevention teams to Chengdu, Mianyang, Deyang, Guangyuan and Wenchuan to carry out disinfection work. In addition, under the coordination of the Ministry of Health, 24 health epidemiological emergency response teams will be stationed in various disaster areas to assist the local health treatment of corpses and prevention and control of epidemics in disaster areas.
■ Scene
28 students' bodies extracted DNA and buried
Time: 22:00 on the 15th Location: Qingchuan Muyu Town Junior High School
The night before at 10:00 pm, Qingchuan County, Muyu Town Junior High School, the search for buried students basically ended. The playground lined up more than a dozen student bodies, all covered with white bedding. A parent cried and nailed a simple coffin with wooden strips, put his 16-year-old son inside, carried to the nearby mountains buried, picked up a few bricks engraved with the child's name.
The white bedding of some of the bodies was marked with numbers, these were children who were temporarily unclaimed by their parents. "***28 names." The head of the Qingchuan County Education Bureau said the school could not identify these students because the bodies had been crushed and badly deformed. Parents did not come to claim them because they were killed or went out and did not make it back. Education Bureau and school personnel have been registered one by one on the characteristics of these bodies, medical personnel also carried out DNA extraction to facilitate the identification of parents and relatives later.
The staff also buried the bodies and left markers on the graves to distinguish them. The hillside near the school is full of tightly packed graves among the trees, "and they can still play together." A parent who burned the paper murmured.
As of yesterday, the collapse of the dormitory building of the junior high school in Muyu Township, Qingchuan County, the bodies of the nearly 300 students who died were basically disposed of, with most of the corpses buried nearby and the site disinfected.
Part of the body corruption can not wait to be identified
Time: 15 22:00 Location: Yingxiu Town, Wenchuan
10:00 pm the night before, near the Zipingpu Dam, visible large numbers of victims fled from Yingxiu to Dujiangyan. Houses along the Yingxiu main road collapsed.
According to the rescue of armed police soldiers on the scene, 14, Yingxiu town again a strong aftershock, some in the last earthquake did not collapse in the house appeared to collapse again, near the landslide. At present, the town is still in a state of water and power outages, there have been 10,000 officers and men into the search and rescue.
"There were survivors dug out the day before yesterday, but basically none since yesterday, and even less today." A soldier who participated in the rescue for three consecutive days told. Because the rain 48 hours after the quake and the clearing on the 15th made bacteria grow and the bodies had rotted, rescuers buried them deep on the spot as soon as they were found, unable to wait for their loved ones to identify them.
Since the night before till now, sanitary and epidemiological personnel from all over the world have been spraying disinfectant drops in the town, filling the whole town with the pungent smell of the drops. There has been no epidemic in the area as the local injured, as well as the elderly and children, have been moved out. The exhumed bodies have also been concentrated under the mountain and will be buried deeper today.
Beichuan
Corruption of corpses has contaminated the river water
Currently, 18 townships and roads are not open can not be prevented from the epidemic, the shortage of medicines up to a hundred tons
A reporter yesterday in Beichuan County saw that the county there are still many victims of the corpses have not been dealt with. The whole county smell is very heavy. Mianyang City, deputy director of the CDC Li Liulin introduced, the current Beichuan health epidemic situation is grim, the shortage of drugs up to 100 tons.
Yesterday afternoon, the reporter once again entered Beichuan County, the county is obviously full of corpses rotting odor. Under many collapsed buildings, the remains of victims have been rotting, some have been seriously rotting. "There are too many, the Civil Affairs Bureau is understaffed." Li Liulin said.
He explained that they had arranged 36 motorized spraying machines to spray for epidemic prevention every day. They patrol the county every day, and when they find corpses that are too late to be transferred, they spray high concentrations of chlorine-containing disinfectant.
The current work of the CDC staff is, first, to disinfect the environment, and every half hour to an hour, they have to disinfect the rescuers' quarters. The second is to disinfect the bodies.
Li Liulin said Beichuan is located in the upper reaches of the Jian River, and the decaying corpses have polluted the river. Together with the hot weather, there is a potential danger of outbreaks of B-brain, malaria, cholera, hepatitis A and typhoid. "The situation of epidemic prevention is very serious now," Li Lulin said.
He explained that of the 20 townships in Beichuan, there are no roads yet, except for Qushan and Ragu townships, so there is no way to prevent epidemics in those places yet. "We can only move forward with the large army."
According to the epidemic prevention needs of the whole Beichuan, they need 100 tons of disinfecting and sterilizing preparations, while there are only 5 tons now. There is also a need for more than 10 tons of insecticide, "but now there are only a few hundred kilograms," Li Liulin said.
■ Initiatives
Sichuan Ineffective disposal of the epidemic will be held responsible
According to Xinhua News Agency, the Sichuan Provincial Government issued an emergency notice on the 15th, requiring all levels of government in the disaster area to fully activate the post-disaster disease prevention and control plan to ensure that the post-disaster epidemic-free target. At the same time, from the 15th onwards, the implementation of the disaster area epidemic, food poisoning and other public **** health emergencies daily and zero report system.
The notice requires that all levels of government in the disaster area should immediately set up a post-disaster disease prevention and control leading group, the full launch of the post-disaster disease prevention and control plan to ensure that there is no pandemic after the disaster target. Inadequate disposal, the occurrence of infectious disease outbreaks and epidemics, mass food poisoning and other events, to pursue the responsibility of the relevant personnel.
Longnan Anti-epidemic drugs shipped to Longnan
According to the Xinhua News Agency, the first batch of disinfectant drugs to prevent epidemics departed from Lanzhou on the 15th, and the first batch of 11 trucks of urgently-needed medicines in large quantities and small-scale medical first-aid equipment have arrived in Wudu District of Longnan late on the night of the 14th, and have begun to be distributed to various counties and districts.
Longnan City Center for Disease Control and Prevention of immunization planning section chief Shen Mingxing said, "At present, the key to prevention in the disaster area is to do a good job of disinfection of water sources, prevention and control of the focus is intestinal infectious diseases." From the 14th, the city began to implement the epidemic daily reporting system, but as of the 14th, the city still has 80 townships and townships of the network, the phone is not through.
■ Reminder
Four types of infectious diseases to guard against after the quake
There are four types of infectious diseases that need to be alerted to epidemics after the quake. Intestinal infectious diseases, such as dysentery, hand, foot and mouth disease, hepatitis A, etc.; respiratory infectious diseases, such as measles, rubella; acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis, commonly known as "red-eye"; and BSE.
People in the disaster area should pay attention to: to ensure that do not ingest contaminated food and water, the conditions of the region to the relevant departments to obtain drinking water disinfection tablets, disinfection and then boil before drinking; to avoid using towels, cutlery and wash water with others ***; garbage and feces as far away as possible from the shelter, if possible, can be used to disinfect the surrounding environment such as bleach; animal carcasses should be far away from the shelter and the source of water! Deep burial, the carcasses of animals that have been corrupted, it is best to incinerate before deep burial
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