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@MOH_Kenya Talk is cheap, without a National Prep'dness System outlining organized processes to advance prep'dness & response activities. How smart is expecting miracles to achieve anything? Thread.@modhiambos @RasnaWarah @ajfactual52 @chothep @Hitlerlaw2
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From the word go, as a reactive people we lacked a National Prep'dness approach & vision for addressing the onslaught against COVID, we never bothered to assess core capabilities necessary to achieve five mission areas: Prevention, Protection, Mitigation, Response, & Recovery.

The President rushed to appoint a committee drawn from supposed focuses on public health & medical support (Public Health, Healthcare, & EMS), but do you see any disaster specialists in it working on necessary capabilities to successfully achieve resilience or informed response?

How smart is running around checking hospitals for necessities, the @SakajaJohnson way. When we don't even have National Standards to measure them against?
Yes @SakajaJohnson co-sponsored the DRM Bill 2019. But does that make him an expert in Disaster auditing? @VictorMwambacha

Without these standards in place, Kenya's public health emergency prep'dness & response capacity has remained untested at national, county & sub-county levels. Ongoing risks related to chemical, biological, radiological, & explosive incidents as well as cyber-attacks too.

These further underscores the importance of us modernizing our all-hazards prep'dness & response strategies to address emerging technologies & new 21st century threats thro a continuous cycle of organizing, training,equipping,evaluating,& taking corrective action.@VictorMwambacha

The capability standards need to at least be organized into six domains & two tiers.
Tier 1 capability standards forming the foundation for public health emergency preparedness & response.

Tier 2 capability standards that are more cross-cutting, & their development would thus rely upon having Tier 1 capability standards established in collaboration with external partners & stakeholders.

The 6 domains the National Committee continues to be oblivious of are-
Community Resilience
Incident Mgmt
Information Mgmt
Countermeasures & Mitigation
Surge Mgmt
Biosurveillance
As they continue doing so, where does it leave Kenya? @threadreaderapp unroll