Medical, Services, Public Health Education / Awareness

8/20/10 - From Relief Web:

Save the Children is currently distributing hygiene kits and conducting hygiene promotion to prevent rise in waterborne diseases like acute watery diarrhea. The organization is also monitoring disease patterns in collaboration with the health cluster disease surveillance system to be able to respond to any disease outbreak. Save the Children is distributing insecticide-treated mosquito nets to prevent vector borne diseases like malaria. The main disease conditions that our medics are seeing at the moment are pneumonia, diarrhea, and malaria — all major killers of young children.