Medicinski vjesnik, Vol. 24 No. (1-2), 1992.
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Work of Epidemiological department of the Osijek public health institute before and during the wartime 1991/92.
Ivan Valek
Josip Milas
Karlo Kožul
Abstract
Medical corps headquarters made the decision that the Osijek Public Health Institute as carrier on the coordination of epidemiological servise for region Slavonija i Baranja. Everyday reporting was agreed upon for the watter of wattersupply, feeding through public kitchens, number of refugees and important epidemiological evants. Work was organized in a way that functioning of the Institution never came in danger. Instantly after being put on altert, work on repair of alternativ water resources, in case of damaging or destroying of city waterworks started. During that process, more then 250 waterwells were repaired and made useful in the area. Special attention was given to mass feeding and sanatory conditions of life of refugees. Work was also done on the improvement of sanitary conditions, desinfiction and deratization on the first front lines, trenches and shelters. Besides, rytham of peacetime jobs was kept, even through because of temporary occupation, insight in the epidemiological situation about twenty villages was lost.
Keywords
epidemiological department; public health; war
Hrčak ID:
195276
URI
Publication date:
1.12.1992.
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