Monday, April 20, 2009

Dover, Massachusetts - Emergency Preparedness

Community Notes:
April 16, 2009

The Dover Board of Health has set up an Emergency Preparedness Program along with 34 other boards of health in other towns. The board has been involved in this program and has been working closely with the Department of Public Health, Center of Disease Control and Homeland Security regarding setting up an infrastructure system in case of flu pandemic or a bioterrorist event.

The board is seeking volunteers to assist in emergency situations when and if it has to dispense vaccines/antibiotics to the general population in the case of a flu pandemic or a bioterrorist event.

The board needs:

Medical personnel: doctors, nurses, pharmacists, medical technicians, counselors, etc.

Clerical processors: greeters and registrars.
Security: traffic flow, parking, etc.
Transportation to help people get to dispensing sites.
Child care for volunteers.

Training will be provided for all volunteers and if any vaccines/antibiotics need be dispensed, they will be given to volunteers and their families first.

If interested, call the Dover Board of Health at 508-785-0032, ext. 232; e-mail boh@doverma.org; or send a letter of interest to: Dover Board of Health, P.O. Box 250, 5 Springdale Ave. Dover, MA 02030.

Call for volunteers

The Sherborn Board of Health is seeking volunteers to assist in emergency situations, when and if it has to dispense vaccines/antibiotics to the town population in the case of a flu pandemic or a bioterrorist event.

Needed are:

1. Medical personnel: doctors, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, optometrists, paramedics, physician assistants, emergency medical technicians, etc.

2. Clerical processors: greeters and registrars.
3. Security: traffic flow, parking, etc.

4. Transportation: to help people get to dispensing sites.

5. Child care: for volunteers.

Training will be provided for all volunteers, and if any vaccines/antibiotics need be dispensed, they will be given to volunteers and their families first.

If interested, call the Sherborn Board of Health at 508-651-7852; e-mail Ellen.Hartnett@sherbornma.org; or send a letter of interest to Sherborn Board of Health, 19 Washington St., Sherborn, MA 01770.

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