Mauritius carried out a nationwide public well being danger profiling train with participation from key stakeholders and  help from The world Well being Group from 22-25 February to higher perceive dangers and put together for future emergencies and disasters.

The Mauritius Ministry of Well being and Wellness (MoHW), the Nationwide Catastrophe Danger Discount Administration Command, Ministry of Finance and Planning, Ministry of Agro Business and Meals Safety, Ministry of Setting and Local weather Change, Ministry of Social Safety, Ministry of Gender and Inequality, Ministry of Training, Ministry of Tourism, Meteorological Providers, the Particular Cell Forces, The Indian Ocean Fee and different stakeholders contributed within the  evaluation of public well being danger. 

 Some 40 multisectoral consultants, used the WHO Strategic Toolkit for Assessing Risk (STAR) to establish and prioritize the nation’s public well being dangers and associated mandatory preparedness and response actions for the well being system.

The STAR toolkit used to evaluate well being emergency dangers for all hazards is aligned with the International Health Regulations (IHR 2005) and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction commitments. STAR additionally facilitates the event of strong insurance policies, methods and plans to deal with the vulnerabilities international locations can face relating to precedence well being emergencies and disasters.  STAR provides a stepwise method to establish hazards dealing with the nation, describe the seasonality and chance to happen, and assess their potential impression on the well being system.

Lastly, individuals talk abouted operationalisation of the chance matrix  to tell capacity-building and readiness actions based mostly on the outcomes. Mauritius has consolidated the chance data and prioritization from STAR to supply additional proof for the finalization of the Nationwide Motion Plan for Well being Safety (NAPHS) which is underneath growth, with the help of WHO since November 2022.

Following the workshop, the Mauritius Ministry of Well being and Wellness and multisectoral companions agreed to:  

• Replace and check contingency plans for precedence dangers;

• Hyperlink the outcomes of the chance profile to well being system capability growth and multi-hazard response operational planning;

• Reconvene stakeholders from the STAR train by finish of April 2023 to use the chance profile and finalize the Nationwide Motion Plan for Well being Safety (NAPHS) and future planning processes; and
• Reinforce all-hazards coordination mechanisms to help collaboration throughout emergency preparedness and response phases.

“The purpose of the workshop is to conduct a multi-hazard evaluation with the participation of various related sectors and ministries to consolidate preparedness and contingency plans within the occasion of emergencies. The STAR consequence for the well being sector will present the proof base for the Nationwide Motion Plan for Well being Safety.  Moreover, the hazards are marked throughout a calendar yr indicating their peak seasons, thereby enabling ample preparedness and useful resource allocation”.  

The Minister of Well being and Wellness, Dr Kailesh Kumar Singh Jagutpal

“For small island growth states that are probably the most susceptible to local weather change whereas they’re the least contributors to it, these dangers evaluation are vital, together with to arrange and due to this fact stop and mitigate the dangers hyperlinks to local weather change. Over time international locations  will accumulate information that can allow  higher proof based mostly determination but additionally to type  stronger advocacy for extra international actions on local weather change.”

WHO Consultant Mauritius, Dr Anne Ancia