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Monday, August 29, 2011

Sanitation Concerns with the Military in Afghanistan

A United States Army Preventive Medicine Medical Detachment provided public health support to over 7000 United States and coalition forces in Regional Command West Afghanistan. This Medical Detachment focused on Occupational and Environmental Health Site Assessments, vector borne surveillance, the Defense Occupational and Environmental Health Readiness System portal, and general site sanitation within forward operating bases (FOB) in western and austere regions of Afghanistan. The three top sanitation issues were solid waste management, chlorination of water and feral animals. Preventive medicine technicians traveled throughout a large area of Afghanistan providing base camp site assessments and working with the FOB leadership to correct deficiencies in sanitation resulting in improved sanitation and a reduction in Disease Non-battle injuries.

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