E-DRUG: Interagency Emergency Health Kit 2006
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Dear colleagues,
I have just had a good look at the 2006 edition of the Interagency Emergency Health Kit (IEHK) - a revision of the 1998 edition of the New Emergency Health Kit. (The first one was in 1990)
It is a kit that contains medicines and medical devices for a population of 10,000 people for a period of 3 months. Like the original kit is comes in 10 boxes of basic supplies each for a population of 1000 people and one kit for referral level.
This kit provides for quick access to standard reliable and affordable medicines for use in the early stages of emergencies. This new version is impressive. The IEHK document that accompanies the kit includes current approaches to management such as IMCI and the current best practice for the management of malaria with artemether/lumefantrine.
Guidelines and algorithms and regulatory information are included but the document remains concise and usable. As always, field use can identify gaps and need for adjustments but it is meant to be a living tool. I would like to congratulate the group who put it together - including several of our e-druggers.
Do have a look at it.
Here are some websites where it can be found:
http://www.drugdonations.org/mrhealthkit.pdf
http://www.who.int/hac/techguidance/ems/WHO_PSM_PAR_2006.4.pdf
Best wishes,
Beverley Snell
*Senior Fellow*
*Centre for International Health*
*Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research & Public Health *
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