As Hurricane Polo churns through the Mexican Pacific, the country’s Health Ministry has rolled out a preventive response plan covering five states: Baja California Sur, Guerrero, Michoacán, Colima, and Jalisco. The effort is being carried out jointly with the National Civil Protection Coordination office and local state authorities to help protect residents from the storm’s potential impact.
To manage the response, officials activated the Health Security Operations Command, a task force designed to coordinate emergency health measures during natural disasters. As part of this effort, specialized teams have already been deployed to key locations in Guerrero, Michoacán, Colima, and Jalisco. These units include experts from the General Directorate of Epidemiology, the National Center for Disease Prevention and Control, and the operations center that handles health contingencies.
In Baja California Sur, a peninsula on Mexico’s Pacific side often in the path of tropical storms, a separate response team remains on standby, ready to mobilize if conditions on the ground worsen. Additionally, national health authorities are holding three more emergency brigades in reserve, prepared to deploy wherever they’re needed most as the storm’s trajectory becomes clearer.
The coordinated deployment reflects standard protocol in Mexico, where hurricane season regularly prompts preventive health and civil protection measures well before storms make landfall. For more details on the government’s response, check out the original report from Excélsior.
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