Illustrative image (Source: VNA)Hanoi(VNA) – The prevention and treatment of winter-spring diseases should beimplemented effectively and synchronically, Minister of Health Nguyen Thi KimTien said at a teleconference on January 4.
Tien asked medical establishments to soon detect infection cases to reduce thenumber of fatalities, while paying attention to bacterial contamination andcross-infection in hospitals.
At the same time, it is necessary to increase public awareness of preventivemeasures, the minister said.
Speaking at the conference, Director of the Health Ministry’s PreventiveMedicine Department Tran Dac Phu said dangerous and newly-emerging diseaseslike avian influenza A/H7N7, Mers-Cov and bubonic plague are very likely topenetrate into Vietnam and break out if drastic preventive measures are nottaken.
The cold weather and crowded festivals in the winter-spring seasons couldfacilitate the development of such diseases as avian influenza, whooping cough,diphtheria, measles, rubella, meningitis and diarrhoea, he said, warning thatdengue fever is forecast to develop more complicatedly in 2018.
Luong Ngoc Khue, Director of the Health Ministry’s Medical Examination andTreatment Department, said his department has asked medical centres to providetraining for health workers and planned to decentralise medical treatment ofwinter-spring diseases.
According to the Preventive Medicine Department, the number of measles casesdropped by 29.2 percent in 2017 compared with the previous year and no deathscaused by the disease were reported.
Meanwhile, 183,287 cases of dengue fever were reported in all 63 cities andprovinces of the country, killing 30 people, and 105,953 cases ofhand-foot-mouth disease were recorded in the year with one death.-VNA
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