FINAL REPORT 18JAN93

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Subject: FINAL REPORT   18JAN93                                          

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                        PREVEN"RIVE YF-DICINE AU@-,\'TATIO.Ii TEA.M AFTER ACTION REPORT

                                                       9.    Trained 5 of the water resources
                        laboratory staff on the use of the V-272 Water Cherical Test Kit
                        and the Millipore Filter Water Bacteriological Field Test Kit.

                                                       h.    Transf erred seven M-272 kits, one
                        Water Bacteriological kl@,         from the .4                 and one Water
                                                                        'r
                        Bacteriological Yit from the       Navy team to               Director of the
                        Water Resources Development        Center, for    ht=anitarl&n purposes.in.....
                        the restoration efforts .'or       Kuwait.
                                                                                5 U.S.C. 552 (b)(6)
                                                 (II) Epidemiology Team:

                                                       a.  The Epidemiolo.-y Tea= objectives were
                        redirected to address problems that might be P.2countered In Kuwait
                        City. The goals were to:

                                                              (1)        )Lssess    the    Status      of
                        Communicable disease it Kuwait City and its environs.

                                                              (2) Determine the stage of water
                        availability, food supplies and other basic emergent needs.

                                                              (3)      CoordinatQ with the Water
                        Assessment Team and the -Vector Control Team to alddress problems of
                        wate.r-bor,.xe or v@@or-bo-@e disease.

                     In
                        ttte' following activities:

                                                              (1) Al'. major Kuwal@, city hospitals
                        were visited and their immi3dia@.e needs were assessed In cznj=@.lon
                        with -352nd CAC perso=al.            Staff physicians were interviewed
                      .regarding the communicable disease experience during the lzaq
                        occupation and ir-, the i-ekdiate post-combaL-- period.
                                                              (2) Arrang@1.8        were coo@@ated
                        f c.- the  dQ2iver_v of wa@@er to the hospitals.              in come cases,
                        supplies   of bottled watez, were delivered to the outlying hospitals
                        such as the   Infectious Disease Hospital- which had a v@ small in-
                        patient c@us.

                                                              (3) Meetings were ' -neld w:'. tt"H T' r, :27
                        o:f Public  Health and their disease survai2lancp- and i-im,nization
                                    are die--ussed.
                        programs   w

                                                                   Z?e,.ive--y o' s-@pplies requested
                        by the hosr,'-tals was

                                                                                      'ear-      means
                        pa:,ti--ipp-tp-d in other ac@-!vi@,4@er o-' t:ha 351@nO@ Civ-'@l Af:!z!:,s @@o=m@-2d

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