Rapidly detecting and responding to health emergencies

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<h1 class="dynamic-content__title-text" >Rapidly detecting and responding to health emergencies</h1> </div> </header> <section class="sf-body-detail container"> <div class="row"> <div class="sf_colsIn col-md-12"> <div class="row sf-content-detail"> <div class="sf_colsIn col-md-7"> <div class="large-body-font-size"> <p>Rapid detection and verification of health emergencies is essential to save lives. WHO’s global surveillance system picks up public health threats 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.  Once an event is verified, WHO assesses the level of risk and sounds the alarm to help protect populations from the consequences of outbreaks, disasters, conflict and other hazards. </p><p>Within 48 hours of an emergency, WHO:</p><ul><li>grades the severity of the event; </li><li>activates the incident management system with a designated team functioning out of emergency operating centres in Geneva, and in the regional and country offices; </li><li>releases funds from WHO’s Contingency Fund for Emergencies;</li><li>deploys field teams and activates global stockpiles of essential supplies, including personal protective equipment, medicines, and vaccines; </li><li>establishes network communication systems and base camps, where needed;  </li><li>communicates the risk to the community and neighbouring countries through official International Health Regulations (2005) procedures, Disease Outbreak News and social media;</li><li>activates the Global Health Cluster, the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), emergency medical teams and standby partners.</li></ul><p>WHO also develops new technologies to be able to detect and track new health events in the most difficult settings, such as the Early Warning, Alert and Response System (EWARS). </p> </div> </div> <div class="sf_colsIn col-sm-12 col-md-4 col-md-push-1">  <div id="sf-accordion" class="sf-accordion">  <div class="sf-accordion__panel statistics-panel is-active"> <div class="sf-accordion__trigger-panel"><a href="#">Impact</a></div> <div class="sf-accordion__content"> <div id="statistics-slider-c5415d44-89de-40aa-83d0-cdac6a9b108f" class="statistics-slider statistics-slider__activity"> <div class="statistics-slide"> <div class="statistics-slide__text-box"> <h2 class="text-box__heading">24/7/365</h2> <h3 class="text-box__subheading"></h3> <p class="text-box__content">WHO鈥檚 global surveillance system detects public health events 24/7/365 each day, every day.</p> <a href="https://extranet.who.int/publicemergency" target="_blank" class="cta-button">Find out more</a> </div> <figure class="statistics-slide__figure"> <div class="Map"></div> </figure> </div> <div class="statistics-slide"> <div class="statistics-slide__text-box"> <h2 class="text-box__heading">7000 health threats</h2> <h3 class="text-box__subheading">every month</h3> <p class="text-box__content">WHO's global surveillance system currently picks up 7000 public health threat signals every month.</p> <a href="https://extranet.who.int/publicemergency" target="_blank" class="cta-button">Find out more</a> </div> <figure class="statistics-slide__figure"> <div class="Map"></div> </figure> </div> <div class="statistics-slide"> <div class="statistics-slide__text-box"> <h2 class="text-box__heading">Over 1600</h2> <h3 class="text-box__subheading">partners worldwide</h3> <p class="text-box__content">WHO relies on more than 1600 partners 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