Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Arizona County Seeks Volunteers on April 13, 2010 for Mock Bioterrorist Exercise Simulating Dispensing Medication to Public at Peoria Sports Complex

Just a note from the one person staff here at Remixx World!, Maricopa County is also seeking Arizona State student volunteers for this drill.

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MARICOPA COUNTY
Public Health
4041 N. Central Ave , Suite 1400
Phoenix, AZ 85012
Ph 602-506-6900
www.maricopa.gov

Maricopa County Seeks Volunteers for Mock BioTerrorist Event

Media Contact: Jeanene Fowler, Public Health: 602-763-5328

Exercise will Simulate Dispensing Medication to Public;

Peoria Sports Complex, April 13, 2010

PHOENIX (March 12, 2010) – In order to practice the effectiveness of emergency plans, Maricopa County Department of Public Health’s Office of Preparedness and Response and the City of Peoria are simulating a bioterrorist event on April 13. The event will allow the county, city and volunteers to see how quickly and effectively they can work together to dispense medication to the public.

In order for this drill to be successful, the county is asking members of the public for their help.

“We need drivers to simply drive around in a specified route and request fake medications for their family,” said Alisa Diggs, program manager for Maricopa County Public Health’s Office of Preparedness and Response. “In order to challenge our team, we will also give drivers scripts so each time they drive through, they represent a different subset of our community such as parents with kids of different ages, those with health conditions and those whose first language is not English.”

Volunteers will be offered dinner and mileage reimbursement for their time and assistance. All that is needed is a car and a valid driver’s license. Volunteers must be at least 18 years of age.

To Volunteer, please contact

Hands on Greater Phoenix at handsonphoenix.org or call 602-973-2212

WHEN

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Requesting volunteers from 2 to 8 p.m.

WHERE

Peoria Sports Complex, 16101 N. 83rd Ave. in Peoria

More information

Please visit www.wearepublichealth.org


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