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cord-285804-lyj9tua8	Chen, Yu-Ju	Stockpile Model of Personal Protective Equipment in Taiwan	2017-04-01		.txt	text/plain	2967	144	43	In addition, a joint electronic procurement platform has been established for merchandising the replaced PPE to local health authorities and medical and other institutions for their routine or epidemic use. Based on the act, the central government, local health authorities, and medical institutions are required to maintain a minimum stockpile of PPE (including surgical masks, N95 respirators, and coveralls) to ensure a sufficient supply for epidemic prevention and frontline healthcare personnel during the early phase of an epidemic. After the SARS epidemic, the Taiwan CDC proposed ''A Strategy Plan for PPE Minimum Stockpile'' and established the 3-tier stockpiling framework-a central health authority (managed by the Taiwan CDC), local health authorities, and medical institutions-to effectively respond to emergent demands and spread the risk of stockpiling. In addition, to ensure the surge capacity during epidemic periods, the contractors must guarantee to provide 5 million surgical masks, 100,000 N95 respirators, and 15,000 coveralls within 14 days in response to an emergency request from the Taiwan CDC.	./cache/cord-285804-lyj9tua8.txt	./txt/cord-285804-lyj9tua8.txt