The Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) also plans to set up a sanitation assistance team to help clean up areas hit by the South Asian tidal waves. The first members will be dispatched to Indonesia to assist local environmental agencies, overseas Chinese and local groups in carrying out sanitation work to prevent disease outbreaks.
環保署也籌組「南亞海嘯災後環境消毒協助團」前往印尼災區，協助當地環保單位、僑界及民間團體進行災後消毒工作，預防災區產生重大疫情。