Respond: Contingency plans – their nature and structures
• veterinary clinics. Appendices should include: • lists of names of key people and their contact details; • details for ancillary organizations and other key government agencies; • regional and international reference laboratories; and • international or regional organizations for possible assistance.
Resource plans The first step in preparing a resource plan is to make a resource inventory. This is a listing of all the resources that will be needed to respond to a moderately-sized outbreak of each of the high-priority emergency diseases. This includes personnel, equipment and other physical resources. The following resource lists required for different operations should be regarded as indicative rather than exhaustive: • National Disease Control Centre: Senior disease-control veterinarians and epidemiologists, financial and administrative officers and extra staff for recording and processing epidemiological and other information; maps (1:50,000 and 1:10,000); computers; communication equipment to local headquarters (e.g. facsimile, e-mail) • Local Disease Control Centres: Senior disease-control veterinarians and epidemiologists, technical support and administrative personnel; suitable offices; office equipment; maps; computers; communication equipment with headquarters (facsimile or e-mail) and field staff (radio or mobile phones); proformas for various disease-control operations • Diagnostic laboratories: Trained laboratory staff; standard laboratory equipment plus any specialized equipment for key emergency diseases; diagnostic reagents for molecular, antigen and antibody detection • Diagnosis/surveillance: Veterinarians and support veterinary auxiliary staff; transport; maps, communication equipment; leaflets or posters on the disease(s); diagnostic collection kits and transporters; blood collection equipment; animal restraint equipment; animal identification equipment (e.g. ear tagging, tattoos), digital cameras, GPS machines, biosecurity equipment (e.g. boots, overalls), PPE for zoonotic diseases • Vaccination: Vaccination teams; vaccines; central and local refrigeration storage; transport; maps; cold storage transporters; vaccination equipment; animal restraint equipment, if appropriate • Animal identification: Equipment (e.g. ear tagging, tattooing), digital cameras, GPS machines, biosecurity equipment (e.g. boots, overalls), PPE for zoonotic diseases, means of recording and retrieving data • Slaughter, disposal and disinfection: Supervising veterinarian, personnel, transport; humane killers and ammunition and/or other approved means of humane killing (e.g. carbon dioxide gassing of poultry); protective clothing; animal restraint equipment; front-end loaders and earth-moving equipment; approved disinfectants, soaps and detergents; shovels and scrapers; high-pressure spraying equipment, digital cameras, GPS machines, biosecurity equipment (e.g. boots, overalls), PPE for zoonotic diseases • Quarantine and livestock movement controls: Enforcement teams, transport, road-blocks (if necessary); signs and posters
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