Red Crescent Society of Tajikistan

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Red Crescent Society of Tajikistan

• Emergency response
• on floods
• Summer 2004

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Emergency response on floods

• Floods registered during July 2004
• Kayrakum
• Sougd Oblast Disaster Response Team
• Gozimalik
• Kurgan-Tube Regional Disaster Response Team
• Varzob
• National Disaster Response Team

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Regional Disaster Response Centers of RCST
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Emergency Response 2004

• Members of National Disaster
• Response Team
• Vice-president RCST
• Disaster Response Coordinator
• Health Coordinator
• Water Sanitation Officers
• Logistics Officers
• During July August 2004
• More than 15 meetings of the team

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Emergency response 2004

• Chronology of the events
• 12.07.04 - 22.00.
• First information from Centrospas
• 13.07.04 - 7.00
• RCST Response Team made situation and needs
  assessment in disaster area
• 13.07.04- 11.00
• First Aid point in disaster area established
• 15.07.04 10.00
• Health and SES Departments officially applied
• 19.07.04 10.00
• RCST Volunteers started Aqua Tabs Tablets
  distribution
• 20.07- 20.08. 04
• Water Quality Assessment in Dushanbe city

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Emergency Response 2004

• Resources
• International Staff Federation Delegates
• Red Crescent Staff well trained and experienced
  Disaster Response Teams
• Trained Volunteers
• Qualified Water Sanitation Specialists
• Del Aqua Kits
• DP stocks

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Emergency Response 2004

• Activities
• Emergency response in Varzob July
• Emergency response on water situation in Dushanbe
  August

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Emergency Response 2004Cooperation Coordination

• IFRC
• UN REACT
• ECHO

Ministry of Emergency Situations Ministry of
Health
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Disaster Response initial phase
First Aid for 125 suffered people and 374 people
evacuated
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Disaster Response second phase

• Rapid Assessment
• of the Water Quality in Dushanbe according SPHERE
  standards
• 4 Joint RCST, IFRC, and SES Teams
• More than 300 Water Quality Analysis

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Water Quality Assessment

• The main indicators for assessment
• Turbidity
• Chlorine test
• Bacterial tests

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The main results of the water quality testing
(feculence of water)
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Testing Areas
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Turbidity of water
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Turbidity Testing Water
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Turbidity testing water of I. Somoni street
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Bacteriological analyze of Lomonosova street
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Bacteriological analyze of Shevchenko street
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Bacteriological analyze of Kalinin street
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Chlorine test of water O. Khayyam street
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Chlorine test of water Telman street
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Emergency Response 2004

• Community Based Activity
• More than 50 Volunteers visited
• 24 000 households in Varzob and Dushanbe
• 900 000 aqua tabs tablets
• 33 800 Informational leaflets

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Emergency Response 2004

• Achievements
• Good example of cooperation with
• UN REACT
• MES Centrospas Rescue Team
• Local Authorities
• Health and SES Departments

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Recommendations

• More close cooperation with the partners at
  national as well as local level
• Full access to official information and data
• Access to up date information of the partners
• Improve the community preparedness in Dushanbe
  city

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