HEALTH CARE AGENCY TO EXERCISE EMERGENCY RESPONSE AT ORANGE COUNTY GREAT PARK
(Santa Ana, CA) – Chairman Andrew Do, 1st District of the Orange County Board of Supervisors, encourages community members to participate in the OC Health Care Agency’s (HCA) Point of Dispensing (POD) emergency preparedness event at the Great Park in Irvine on October 18 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. HCA, the City of Irvine, and seven South County cities will practice rapid distribution of medicine in the event of a public health outbreak.
If a widespread disease or other emergency were to occur, it may be necessary for local health departments to activate PODs to distribute large amounts of vaccinations, antibiotics, and other medicines to a large number of people. Continue reading