HIGHLIGHTS
- A multi-cluster mission visited Dera Ismail (DI) Khan District to assess the humanitarian situation of civilians displaced due to the security situation. The mission estimated there were about 300 000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) from South Waziristan.
- In response to pandemic (H1N1) 2009 alerts in Pakistan, training sessions on the disease and its control were conducted in four provinces. On 17 November, 36 medical doctors, paramedics, laboratory technicians and nurses from North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) attended a training session on H1N1 held at the Provincial Health Services Academy. Training sessions on the clinical management of H1N1 were also conducted in Sindh (49 participants), Azad Jammu and Kashmir (46 participants) and Punjab (42 participants).
- Last week, essential medicines and life-saving drugs for 36 000 individuals (for one month) were delivered to Mardan District while Swat and Swabi Districts received essential medicines and life-saving drugs for 30 000 inviduals (for one month) .
- Over the last six months, the Health Cluster has provided essential medicines for almost 2 million people in NWFP and has donated 2900 sets of medical supplies and drugs to treat acute watery diarrhoea.
- A training session on communicable disease surveillance for the staff of the Department of Health in Mardan was conducted on 12 November. A total of 55 health staff, including 20 medical officers, were trained on case definition and management, data compilation, alerts and response, acute watery diarrhoea case management, early detection and preventive measures for H1N1.