And PUBLIC HEALTH POINTS FOR REFLECTION 121 countries TCC contribute troops and police to the UN Peace Keeping Operations Health of Peace Keepers and of Host Populations Medical services and safeguards re military personnel ID: 553060
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UN PEACE KEEPING
And
PUBLIC HEALTH
POINTS
FOR
REFLECTIONSlide2
121 countries (TCC) contribute troops and police to the UN Peace Keeping OperationsSlide3
Health of Peace Keepers and of Host Populations
Medical services and safeguards re military personnel:
Exposure to environmental issues and relevant communicable diseasesProper screening before deploymentExposure to peace keepers as vectorsConditions and routines of the peace keeping forceInteractions with peacekeepersUse of materiel for emergency medical services (the humanitarian angle)Slide4
provide mental health services to peacekeepers (culture shock, PTSD, standard)
“I have a military background, what standard of care we give, what is acceptable in a military environment, in a warzone, is not what would be acceptable in Cornell or NYU
Return impact on family, nationSlide5
TCC are to follow the UN protocol re recruiting and deploying
Peace Keeping Personnel
“Chief Medical Officer (CMO) confirmed that medical services had witnessed cases of contingent members diagnosed with chronic/serious illnesses such as HIV/AIDS, cancer, tuberculosis
, etc., which were clearly developed prior to that deployment for mission duty…The affected troop members could spread communicable disease such as tuberculosis to other troops and mission personnel
.”Slide6
Exposures in the host country
Food borne diseases
Malaria Slide7
The
Humanitarian AngleSlide8
UN peacekeepers are grappling with how to halt the spread of AIDS within their ranksSlide9
Ebola and Peace Keeping
Chinese peacekeepers in Liberia
strengthen their precautionary measures,
a
fter reports of a new case of Ebola
were
reported
A battalion of 800 Sierra Leone soldiers
awaiting deployment as peacekeepers
in Somalia has been placed in
quarantine,
f
ollowing new reports of Ebola cases.Slide10
“Although
the UN may have been legally correct (and financially prudent, given the organization’s stretched resources) in refuting liability for the Haiti cholera cases, the episode and the arguments advanced by the UN have damaged the organization’s
legitimacy and moral standing.” (source: IPI Healing or Harming)
Cholera
outbreak
in Haiti