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Subject: USS Boxer & USNS Mercy

 

 
 

U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps 

Health Diplomacy Weekly Update 2008

Week # 7:  07 June - 13 June 

In support of Secretary Leavitt's Health Diplomacy Initiative, the USPHS
Commissioned Corps will participate with the U.S. Navy on three missions
designed to increase the operational capacity of U.S. government
personnel to deliver humanitarian assistance, perform public health
assessments, conduct public health infrastructure repair and provide
health care training of indigenous health care workers in the Caribbean,
Latin America, the Pacific Rim and Pacific Islands during the spring,
summer and fall of 2008. 

USS BOXER               USPHS Officer-in-Charge (OIC): CAPT Dean Coppola


	*	The ship arrived in Callao, Peru for several days of
liberty in Lima starting on 06 June after which missions began ashore. 
	*	The USPHS dentist and dental hygienist both continued to
see patients at the ship's dental clinic while in transit. The USPHS
dentist was requested to serve in country for all six mission days as
apposed to the 3 and 1 rotation due to her Spanish speaking abilities
and to provide respite to the other members of the team.
	*	The Preventive Medicine team spent much of their time at
the Huacho Regional Hospital meeting with 5 HN physicians from 4
different localities where they provided trainings and assessments on
water quality, vector control and solid waster issues. Another team did
two site safety assessments where our teams were working. The USPHS
preventive medicine physician met with the epidemiology department of
the hospital. One of the primary concerns was early infant diarrheal
diseases. She also met with the Quality Assurance Division at the Huacho
Regional Hospital. The USPHS EHO and other team members trained local
Huara public health professionals and providers on waste water,
leishmaniasis and food safety. The USPHS ENG was part of the team that
went with the Huara mayor to see several of water sites in the district
where they collected and analyzed water samples.

 

USNS MERCY      USPHS OIC: CAPT Kevin Prohaska 

	*	USPHS officers are participating in a variety of
missions in and around Cotabato, Philippines. 
	*	The USPHS dentist remains on a 14 day "remain overnight"
(RON) MEDCAP in Samar and is scheduled to rejoin the ship on 14 June.  
	*	The embarked USPHS pharmacist safely returned from the
RON MEDCAP in Marawi. In total, she was on site for 6 days, leaving on 6
June and returning on 11 June. The mission was very successful. In total
she saw several thousand patients and dispensed many more prescriptions.
The mission was extremely busy and several locations required up to a 2
hour drive to and from the site. The living conditions of the
communities visited lacked sanitation, electricity, and running water.
	*	The Preventive Medicine team members have been assisting
the SEEBEES in multiple construction projects; providing the SEEBEES
with engineering advice that resulted in significant improvement in
planed drainage systems and other water projects; providing technical
help with survey equipment; providing multiple training sessions to the
SEEBEES and local population; reviewing water quality data today and
compared them against the EPA's Maximum Contaminant Levels; giving
presentations on various infectious disease topics. 
	*	USPHS mental health professionals have been providing
lectures on the Psychological Responses to Disaster. They also met to
discuss, in conjunction wit the ship's Chaplain, strategies to "debrief"
crew members who participated in shore missions while in the RP.
	*	Detachment #2 Status: (03 July - 04 August). Still need
1 extra EHO or ENG.
	*	Detachment #3 Status: (04 August - 01 September). Still
need 1 Dental Hygienist plus 1 extra EHO or ENG.

 

USS KEARSARGE   USPHS OIC: TBD 

	*	Detachment #1 Status: (05 August - 11 September). Still
need 1 Physician (FP/ER) and DEN.
	*	Detachment #2 Status: (13 September - 19 October). Still
need 1 Physician (FP/ER), DEN and ENG.
	*	Detachment #3 Status: (20 October - 01 December). Still
need 1 Physician (FP/ER), DEN and EHO.

 

 


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