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IDPH Office of Preparedness and Response provides emergency response planning, training, exercise, emergency response and evaluation services to all IDPH programs, local public health departments, and the healthcare system.

The SNS contains drugs, antidotes, and medical/surgical supplies designed to enhance response to weaponized biological agents similar to anthrax, plague, and tularemia.

The Program’s primary mission is to deliver medical materiel to a safe site proximal to the affected area and formally transfer custody of the assets from the federal to state government officials. Known the SNS is built on the assumption that a natural or terrorism related biological event has the potential to rapidly strain, if not deplete, local supplies of medical materiel. Known as the Strategic National Stockpile, the purpose of the EMCM Program is to deliver critical medical assets to the site of a national emergency. On top of that, the SNS assets are available from the federal government to save lives, prevent disease, and facilitate basic health care service when look, there’s a terrorist attack, a natural disaster, or an industrial accident.

IPS is a state sponsored cache of medical materiel pre positioned and field deployed to aid state/local emergency response. IPS currently contains drugs and antidotes designed to enhance response to weaponized preparations of nerve agents, industrial chemicals, radiological ionizing radiation and identical biological agents like anthrax, plague, and tularemia. More than 90 of the population is within one a hour CHEMPACK location, and if hospitals or first responders need them, they can be accessed quickly. Illinois’ CHEMPACK caches are stored in geographically dispersed hospitals. Traditional stockpiling and delivery should take being that these antidotes need to be administered quickly. So, the toxic effects of nerve agents require immediate pharmaceutical intervention.

IDPH’s CHEMPACK Preparedness and Response Plan provides guidance to State and local authorities for the storage, maintenance, and utilization of chemical/nerve agent antidotes during a chemical agent event when local resources been depleted.