The New Emergency Health Kit 98: Drugs and Medical Supplies for 10,000 People for Approximately 3 Months
(1998; 82 pages) [French] [Spanish] View the PDF document
Table of Contents
View the documentAcknowledgments
View the documentIntroduction
Open this folder and view contentsChapter 1: Essential drugs and supplies in emergency situations
Open this folder and view contentsChapter 2: Comments on the selection of drugs, medical supplies and equipment included in the kit
Open this folder and view contentsChapter 3: Composition of the New Emergency Health Kit 98
View the documentAnnex 1: Basic unit: treatment guidelines
Open this folder and view contentsAnnex 2: Assessment and treatment of diarrhoea
Open this folder and view contentsAnnex 3: Management of the child with cough or difficult breathing
View the documentAnnex 4: Sample data collection forms
View the documentAnnex 5: Sample health card
Open this folder and view contentsAnnex 6: Guidelines for suppliers
Close this folderAnnex 7: Other kits for emergency situations
View the documentImmunization
View the documentNutritional support - feeding kits
View the documentReproductive health kits for emergencies
Open this folder and view contentsAnnex 8: Guidelines for Drug Donations48
Open this folder and view contentsAnnex 9: Model Guidelines for the International Provision of Controlled Medicines for Emergency Medical Care52
Open this folder and view contentsAnnex 10: References
View the documentAnnex 11: Useful addresses
View the documentOrganizations which have collaborated in the preparation of the New Emergency Health Kit 98
View the documentBack Cover
 

Reproductive health kits for emergencies

The following 13 subkits are available through UNFPA and follow the numbering below.

Subkits designed for 10,000 people for 3 months

0-(A) Training and administration

Administration equipment for training health workers and health personnel

1. Condom

120 gross (17,280) condoms with safe sex leaflets

2. Clean delivery

200 individual packets containing material and pictorial instruction sheet for self delivery plus material for traditional birth attendants

3. Post rape/emergency contraception

Emergency contraceptive tablets in packs of 4 (100 packs) plus erythromycin and cefixime with explanatory leaflets on emergency contraception

4. Oral and injectable contraception

Designed to provide oral or injectable contraception to former users

5. Sexually transmitted disease

Designed to provide antibiotics and condoms using the syndromic approach for the major sexually transmitted diseases

Subkits designed for 30,000 people for 3 months

6. Delivery

For trained personnel, midwives, nurses with midwifery skills and medical doctors to perform normal deliveries, repair episiotomies and perineal tears under local anaesthetic and stabilize dangerous situations before transfer to a referral unit, (eclampsia and haemorrhage)

7. Intra-uterine device

Equipment and material for trained personnel to place IUDs either as emergency contraception or as non-emergency contraception at the request of women and to remove IUDs (antibiotics included)

8. Complications of abortion

Equipment and material to perform uterine evacuation and if necessary give antibiotics

9. Vaginal examination, vaginal/cervical tears

Equipment to allow vaginal examination and suturing of cervical and vaginal tears

10. Vacuum extraction

Provides a Bird vacuum extractor to assist in vaginal delivery by using vacuum extraction method to deliver the newborn

Subkits designed for referral level: surgical/obstetric, 150,000 people for 3 months

11. Referral level (part A) Surgical/obstetric reusable equipment

Referral level (part B) Drugs and disposable equipment

Equipment materials and drugs provide for caesarian sections, resuscitation of mothers and babies, treatment of sexually transmitted infections, and complications of pregnancy and delivery

12. Transfusion

Material for grouping, cross-matching blood and HIV testing

 

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