Title: Investigation on Current Cold Chain Conditions in Guangdong Province
Abstract: It has practical significance to conduct a survey on the cold chain equipment which has been functioning in the past 13 years. Investigation of 144 epidemic prevention stations of district and county levels began from Sep. 1998, 88.19% of them provided with valid data, and the deadline for entering data was June 30, 1999. Besides, 3 epidemic prevention stations of district level, 8 of county level and 32 town hospitals were surveyed on-spot by provincial epidemic prevention station. The results showed that: the percentage of full functioning cold chain was 75% in Guangdong Province, of which the good condition rates for cold storage trucks was 50%, for vaccine transport car 69%, for low temperature cold storage house 100%, for common cold storage house 92%, for low temperature refrigerator 83%, for general refrigerator 74%, for cold storage box 75%, for cold storage bag 66% and for ice raft was 67%. The renewal of refrigerator, cold storage bag and ice raft were more than the others. The age of the maintenance workers are older, they are not very specialized. In the on-the-spot survey, the maintenance workers are found to hold two or more posts concurrently, the contingent is not stable. The investigation by questionaire showed about 58% of the epidemic prevention stations had no maintenance worker. For ensurring the regular working of cold chain equipment, a new secure model should be established, management of the cold chain equipment should be build up.
Publication Year: 2000
Publication Date: 2000-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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