The health ministry office about the need to drinking water, food monitoring and flood the emergency health supervision work

Health ministry of China

Who invented electric (2012) no. 15

        All provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the central government health TingJu, xinjiang production and construction corps health bureau:

        Since summer has set, part in continuous heavy rainfall, inundation situation. At present, is in flood control and the critical period, health administrative departments at all levels should attach great importance, strengthen leadership, perform their functions and duties according to law, strengthen the measures to implement the responsibility, best flood season drinking water, food monitoring and health supervision work, prevent water disease, foodborne illness interface outbreak, safeguarding the health of the people. We inform the related work are as follows:

        First, strengthens the drinking water and food monitoring work

        To be active in flood season around drinking water, food security situation to analyze, out as soon as possible, targeted to develop the drinking water, food safety emergency monitoring. Key monitoring index including pH drinking water, turbidity, microbiology indicators, disinfectant index, and heavy metal, chemical pollutants index (according to local may cause pollution water drinking water to the actual situation of certain). In daily monitoring all over, on the basis of improving monitoring frequency. Food safety monitoring according to actual situation around, clear food microbiology, pollution monitoring index and method, the timely discovery food safety problems.

        Second, strengthen the drinking water health supervision

        The various localities should strictly according to the infectious diseases prevention law "and" the living and drinking water hygiene supervision and management method "regulation, increase the centralized water supply and two water supplies of supervision and inspection, urged water supply unit shall strictly implement health protection, water quality water disinfection health management measures, for the problems found water supply unit must order rectification within a time limit. Strengthen rural drinking water safety checks, especially, in rural health protection to water, water disinfection key link increase guidance dynamics, ensure that health security search all the coverage. At the same time, to increase urban and rural and school to the supervision and inspection of the water supply, and carry out the water sampling inspection, remove the security hidden danger.

        Three, to strengthen the supervision and part of the medical and health institutions

        Should urge all medical and health institutions carry out medical wastes management responsibility flood season, strengthening of the medical waste storage facilities for equipment management, banned in the open and the storage site for medical waste, medical waste storage time for no more than 2 days. Medical institutions to work to supervision of radioactive isotopes and radioactive waste storage, storage work. In an emergency situation, to quickly start to this unit's emergency response plan, of the medical waste, radioactive isotopes and radioactive wastes in time, the transfer of security.

        Four, strengthening information report

        All drinking water and sanitation to food safety monitoring in time to the local government report, to report to the relevant departments. At all levels of institution of disease prevention and control and health supervision institution shall report interface of water each other infectious diseases information. Found that drinking water pollution incident, will, in accordance with law, local government and superior to the administrative department of public health reports. Happen food poisoning, foodborne illness outbreak, according to relevant regulations and procedures submitted to the food safety accidents information.

        Fifth, strengthen the health education

        To all the publicity of flood season drinking water, food safety, health and infectious disease control emergency measures and requirements, make full use of the mass media and various forms of propaganda intestinal infectious disease prevention knowledge. Especially the education to prevent food poisoning, food-borne diseases, properly deal with mildew, water, food and ill or deterioration of unknown cause livestock and poultry and the unexplained food, drinking water safety to possible influence drink boiling water, enhance public self consciousness of prevention.

The health ministry office

July 25, 2012