With medium resources, the proposed implementation steps for this element are as follows:
- Setting up one or more poison centres for the country, consider using external resources to set it up, request medical doctors to submit information on poisonings to the poison centre. Require industry and hospitals to report poisoning to the poison centre once a year. Use a template for reporting.
- Information transfer once a year on poisonings from the poison centre to the framework, information on poisoning, the chemical causing the poisoning and the supplier of the chemical, and information on the rehabilitation of poisoned persons. Store the information, for example, in a National Database if available, for dissemination and use.
- Assessment of the information on poisoning for evaluation of the effectiveness of the system and on rehabilitation of poisoned persons once a year.
- Compliance monitoring and enforcement of obligations of industry and hospitals in step 1.
Relevant tools
Below is a list of tools relevant for implementing this topic :