2018/05/29
The Ministry of National Defense issued press reference data to explain: “Heat injury prevention measures and air force threat warning system of the national army”
Press reference data of the Ministry of National Defense
10:00AM, May 29th, 2018
I. Heat injury prevention measures of the national army:
1. During summer, high temperature and sultry weather resulted in high risk of heat injury (heat stroke, heat exhaustion and rhabdomyolysis, etc.), the affiliates of the ministry have actively implemented heat injury prevention education and have completed the qualification of heat injury certification of all national army personnel, and we keep improving the ability of heat injury identification, preliminary treatment and emergency cooling exercises of soldiers, and efficiently implant the correct concept of heat injury prevention and precautionary measuues.
2. With the upcoming of exercise and training tasks, in order to prevent the occurrence of heat injury incidents during training and exercise, relevant prevention measures are listed as following:
(1) Make list of high risk personnel of heat stroke (such as obesity (BMI>28), sweat gland dysfunction, taking cold medicine, etc.) and their responsible supervisor should give appropriate care and assistance.
(2) Grouping rescue teams with the army before military drill and establishing communication mechanism and complete testing, gathering information (sections, equipment and contact tel.) about hospitals which are nearing the military drill site and capable of heat stroke emergency treatment, survey in advance and familiar with the evacuation route.
(3) Complete the preparation of equipment such as emergency medical kit, sprinkler, fan and ice bucket before the daily attendance of ambulances, and install driving recorder and complete functional test. Medical staff should be familiar with the operation of emergency equipment in case of need.
(4) Regularly monitor the change of heat stroke risk factor (temperature + humidity*0.1), drink water appropriately (drink a little and slowly, but frequently). It is strictly forbidden to substitute by ice drinks.
(5) Emergency measures are as following:
(i) Quick discovery: when conditions like unconsciousness, general fatigue and muscle aches, body temperature increasing, stop sweating or less urination occurred and discovered by self or neighboring soldiers, they should immediately report to the supervisor and notify the medical staff for treatment.
(ii) Rapid cooling: move the patient to a cool ventilated place, remove the arms and soaking and wiping the whole body by cool water, ice or wet towels and ice pack the neck, armpit and both sides of the inguinal area with aorta. Provide them water if necessary.
(iii) Rapid medical care delivery: cooling and evacuation at the same time, and contact the hospital for emergency treatment preparation in advance; during evacuation process, keep monitoring vital signs of the patient and provide necessary medical treatment timely.
4. With global warming and climate change, during torrid summer the highest temperature keep increasing and we appeal all people and the family of soldiers of the national army to pay attention to the change of urine color and drink water timely during indoor and outdoor activities, and choose appropriate period and place to take activities, and prepare necessary equipment. Immediately seek for medical support if any physical discomfort occurred which is suspicious of heat injury, to ensure personal safety.
5. In recent years, with the consistent effort of each level of the national army, the mortality rate of heat injury is zero. And the Ministry of National Defense keep requiring soldiers to implement necessary activities to prevent heat injury and improving the risk management of supervisors (personal identification and environmental monitoring), comprehensive emergency medical treatment (emergency rescue and keep cooling treatment after delivery) and enhancing self-defense ability to achieve the target of “safety and no injury” in the training environment of the national army.
II. Air force threat warning system
1. Test instructions:
The test of the “air force threat warning system” of the Ministry of National Defense is scheduled to implement at June 7 to coordinate with Wan An Exercise, and will execute system function verification. The testing region is central area for this time, during the exercise, people will receive air defense warning SMS to coordinate with Wan An Exercise from the National Police Administration, and also receive missile air defense warning testing SMS that appeal people to not worry and cooperate with the exercise; and during the test, due to the impact of the coverage of the base station, electronic signal ionization will like to occur, the infrastructure of relevant telecom provider, equipment scale, data transmission rate, number of users and mobile phone performance will affect the reception rate. If people in the exercise area doesn’t receive the SMS, they should follow other instructions to cooperate with the exercise as well, and if people outside the exercise area receive the SMS, they should keep calm. As the test completed and without malfunction, the system will officially launch in a short period.
2. Test plan:
(1)Testing period: 13:30-14:00PM at June 7, 2018 (Thursday)
(2)Testing location: central area (Miaoli County, Taichung City, Nantou County, Changhua County, Yunlin County, Chiayi City, Chiayi County)
(3)Testing message (example):
[Missile Air Defense Warning Testing SMS] This is a testing message of missile air defense warning of Wan An Exercise, please follow the training advise for evacuation. Ministry of National Defense.