Emergency Preparedness | DeWitt-Piatt Bi-County Health Department

The health department is constantly monitoring school absences in an attempt to determine a food borne outbreak or a disease outbreak.

The health department is also required to have drills annually to see how quickly they could dispense medications to the population should a bioterrorist event or pandemic influenza occur.

The health department currently monitors what is happening in the world regarding different disease outbreaks.