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Bhutan using MCKs for flu clinics

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Every public health emergency is an opportunity to learn, prepare better for future and innovate. In 2015 a massive earthquake in Nepal damaged or destroyed many health facilities.

Responding to the situation, WHO put together medical camp kits (MCKs) to ensure continuity of primary healthcare services. The MCKs are now part of WHO South-East Asia Region’s emergency and preparedness measures and pre-positioned in Member countries for use during any emergency.

In Bhutan MCKs are being used as flu clinics in all seven districts as part of COVID-19 response. Photo credit: WHO BhutanThe flu clinics have been set up some distance away from the health care centres to ensure physical distancing between routine patients attending health centres and

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