St. Charles County Department of Community
Health & The Environment

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, May 28, 2005

CONTACT:
Gil Copley, Director, Department of Community Health and the Environment                                   636-949-7477
Julie Burkemper, Public Information Officer                                                                                      636-949-7408

Role Players Needed for Emergency Preparedness Exercise

St. Charles County -The St. Charles County Department of Community Health and the Environment is seeking volunteers to role play as victims in a Bioterrorism exercise on June 15, 2005.

During the exercise, St. Charles and other Region C counties, will demonstrate and assess their emergency response plans by operating medication dispensing sites.           

A medication dispensing site would be used, in the event of a Bioterrorism attack or widespread disease outbreak, to distribute medication to large numbers of people as efficiently and quickly as possible.           

On the day of the exercise, volunteers will attend an orientation, receive lunch, be assigned a role playing card and then proceed through the medication clinic as a “victim”.   Volunteer orientation will begin at 11:30am and the exercise will conclude at 3:00pm.

To volunteer or get more information please contact Hope Woodson, Public Health Response Planner at 636-949-7554. 

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