抄録
Because of the Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE) and following turmoil including delay of the construction of temporary shelter, about 400,000 of Internal displaced people (IDP), victim of earthquake, tsunami and radiation problem, forced to live in the temporary evacuation centers for 9 months. Aiming not for prolonged stay, management of the living conditions, such as temperature and humidity, at temporary evacuation center has extremely difficult. It was easy to come up with the idea of deterioration of health condition of followed by changing of biological flora. Since this disaster happen, Primary Care for All Team organized by Japan Primary Care Association as a special unit to practice the humanitarian medical aid had been paying attention to the phenomenon of proliferation of molds and mites in temporary evacuation centers. Decision was made before the monsoon come. With technical and academic support from National Institute of Health Sciences (NIHS), team called “Myte/Mold Busters” was launch aimed for providing the cleaning service and sanitation activity to all the temporary evacuation center of Ishinomaki and Onagawa area. Quite few attentions have been paid for the health problem caused by mold in disaster and still we need more research and study about this area. However in GJEA, increase of the number of the patient complained about respiratory and skin symptoms were observed after the certain period of disaster. Furthermore, first case of severe symptom of respiratory failure related mold exposure was detected from the resident of temporary shelter which has been continuously followed by the research team of NIHS and revealed extremely high density of mold in their house. People have to live in harsh condition in evacuation center continuously in coming mega disaster such as Nankai Trough Earthquake and Tokyo Earth Quake. Climate of those areas are totally different. It will be more template and humid from that of Tohoku, appropriate condition for the mold. And still there are a lot of people living in temporary shelter in Tohoku. Health problem caused by mold in mega disaster are not yet paid so much attention from the public however, and so that’s why, we have to make effort to raise this issue to the public, develop counter major and prepare for the coming disaster as a pioneer in this field, to save the life, to help the people.
