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Department outlines emergency-preparedness upgrades after recent incidents
Summary
Public Health officials described efforts to improve call-down procedures, radio resilience, multilingual community communications and a 20% medical-surge exercise requirement; staff said lessons from recent wildfires and power outages drove WEA and mask distribution changes.
Navina Baba, of the Department of Public Health's Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Branch, briefed the Health Commission on preparedness activities and recent responses including power outages, the North Bay fires and a hepatitis A effort.
Baba said the branch, consolidated in 2010, uses an incident command structure and follows national capabilities for public-health and health-care preparedness. She described…
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