HOW TO BE PREPARED FOR A CHILD FOR A

COLD CHAIN EMERGENCY

1. Fill empty spaces of the main storage cabinet with
containers of water and fill empty spaces of the freezer
compartment with ice packs.
2. Ensure that you have enough transport boxes for all your
vaccines and that the required numbers of ice packs are
frozen at all time.
3. Always keep spare ruses or spare wires in stock or learn
where these are kept.
4. If you plan to be absent or go on leave, train your
replacement to follow these emergency guidelines.
5. If possible, locate another source of ice (or frozen ice packs)
which should be available to you during either a mechanical
or an electrical failure.
6. If available, locate and obtain permission to use another
refrigerator in the building for temporary storage of vaccine
in case of mechanical failure.
Note:
Do not open refrigerator during brown-outs. Domestic
refrigerators can
7. Locate another refrigerator in a distant part of town or in
neighboring town which would probably not be affected by
the same power failure and obtain permission to use it. (Ice
cream vendor or cold storage merchants may have
refrigerators or ice).
8. Identify the local technician who has facilities to make minor
emergency repairs and find out where he lives and works.
9. Learns how to keep each of the keys which you will need
after working hours to reach you refrigeration and discus
with each person why you may need to reach the
refrigerator.
10. Arrange the night watchmen to inform you after
working hours if the electricity in the building stops working
for more than two hours.