Sanitary assistance provided after the Haiyan typhoon in Philippines by fundacion SAMU and SEMECA

Abstract

This study describes the sanitary intervention provided by the four professional health parties of the “Fundacion SAMU and SEMECA” sent to Bantayan Island (Philippines) after the Haiyan typhoon in 2013. This is an observational, descriptive, transversal and retrospective study to describe the profile of the 4546 attended cases performed from the 18 th of November of 2013 to the 15 th of February of 2014. The data analysis from medical records was done using SPSS 22.0. The results indicated that females were the most attended section of population (58%), and children under the age of five were the 25% of the cases. The breathing conditions were the vast majority (33%) by poor salubrity and overcrowding, followed by a wide range of pathologies (22.2%), traumatic pathologies (13%) due to cleaning and rebuilding, non- traumatic pain (10.6%) and gastrointestinal diseases (6.1%) due to poor water quality and poor hand hygiene. The most used treatment was pharmacological (55%) followed by cures (20%) and vitamins (11%). After these types of treatments, people were discharged in the 90.7% of the cases and followed-up in the 8.4% of the cases. This study can help to improve logistics planning for future health interventions in similar disasters.