HEALTH CARE AND PRECENTIVE MEDICINE SUPPORT FOR EPW 30 JAN 91

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Subject = HEALTH CARE AND PRECENTIVE MEDICINE SUPPORT FOR EPW  30 JAN 91  

Box ID = BX000284

Folder Title = GENERAL FIELD SANITATION SURVEY 12TH EVAC HOSPITAL                                              

Unit = VII CORPS   

Parent Org = ARCENT      











   MEDICAL CLEARING COMPANY ASSESSMENT:
     - Provide immediate care for EPW up to 72 hours
     - Triage
     - Minimal surgery
     - Treat minor illnesses
     - Identify acute and chronic illnesses such as malaria, hepatitis, malitis,
       skin infections, severe malnutrition

   PREVENTIVE MEDICINE ASSESSMENT:
     - LA (Entomology) and LB (Field Sanitation) assets available
     - Delousing
     - Fly/Vector control
     - Sanitation inspection
     - Field sanitation training




   PLANNED EPW INPROCESSING STEPS:
     - Individual EPW's will be deloused upon entry to camp
     - EPW's will be strip searched by MP's prior to medical examination
     - Medical personnel will treat minor injuries and illnesses and assess
       health of EPW's
     - A 72 hour holding capability for treated EPW's is available
     - Serious injuries/illnesses will be transported to the rear area medical
       treatment facilities
       EPW's will be reclothed in training MOPP suits or other clothing
     - MP's will inprocess prisoners (ID, Photo, etc.)
     - Prisoners will be segregated into holding pens (officers, NCO'S,
       Enlisted Men, Incorigibles)
     - 3 to 24 hour holding time before moved to Theater Camp (theoretically)


   RECOMMENDED ACTIONS TO REMEDY DEFICIENT AREAS:
     - Showers and handwashing facilities provided to EPW's to control personal
       hygiene and head lice
     - Control of body lice, mosquitoes, flies, sandflies, and rodents by LA
       team to check spread of vector-borne diseases
     - Dig deep trenches and install urine tubes
     - Have EPW's burn fecal wastes and clean own latrines
     - Trash can5 will be obtained for collecting empty MRE bags and water
       bottles in each holding pen
     - Infectious wastes and trash will be bagged and burned.
     - LB teams will train MP's in field sanitation and educate them about the
       medical threat to themselves and other U.S. personnel working in the
       camp
     - Stress the use of Permanone by all U.S. personnel for personal protect-
       ion against insect vector-borne diseases.
     - EPW's which are severely malnourished may require special rations which
       are high in phosphorus and easy to digest (rice, dates, skim milk or
       cheese)