Chun Sakada, VOA Khmer
Phnom Penh Wednesday, 18 August 2010
“The exercise is very important for Cambodia and Asean countries to know and understand an emergency response to a possible outbreak of a pandemic disease.”Disaster preparedness experts from around the region are gathered in Cambodia this week to undertake exercises for an imagined pandemic or other calamities.
More than 170 participants are practicing emergency responses for a global disease outbreak, major typhoon, nuclear device detonation—and even a meteor strike.
Any of those would require a major response with collaboration between nation's. The major focus is on pandemic.
“The exercise is very important for Cambodia and Asean countries to know and understand an emergency response to a possible outbreak of a pandemic disease,” Sok Touch, directory of the Ministry of Health's communicable disease department, told VOA Khmer on the sidelines of the a meeting in Phnom Penh Wednesday.
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