Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked healthcare centres andadministrators at all levels to work harder to control outbreaks ofhand-foot-mouth disease.
The request was made as Phuc attended the launch of a national campaignto fight the disease in the northern port city of Hai Phong on Mar. 2.
Hai Phong has recorded the highest number of human infections, with 848 cases per 100,000 people.
Phuc also ordered the city to raise public awareness on hygiene to helpprevent the spread of the disease. Improving knowledge for healthcareworkers and those working in child care to diagnosis the disease in itsearly stages was also necessary, he said.
In March andApril the campaign will focus on households, mothers and carers ofchildren under five years old, with measures set to be applied to curbthe disease at schools and kindergartens.
Similarcampaigns will be carried out nationwide, according to the Ministry ofHealth. The disease has already claimed the lives of nine childrenand struck 7,889 people in 60 cities and provinces in the first sixweeks of 2012. Continued cold weather is forecast to lead to the threatof more outbreaks of the disease.-VNA
The request was made as Phuc attended the launch of a national campaignto fight the disease in the northern port city of Hai Phong on Mar. 2.
Hai Phong has recorded the highest number of human infections, with 848 cases per 100,000 people.
Phuc also ordered the city to raise public awareness on hygiene to helpprevent the spread of the disease. Improving knowledge for healthcareworkers and those working in child care to diagnosis the disease in itsearly stages was also necessary, he said.
In March andApril the campaign will focus on households, mothers and carers ofchildren under five years old, with measures set to be applied to curbthe disease at schools and kindergartens.
Similarcampaigns will be carried out nationwide, according to the Ministry ofHealth. The disease has already claimed the lives of nine childrenand struck 7,889 people in 60 cities and provinces in the first sixweeks of 2012. Continued cold weather is forecast to lead to the threatof more outbreaks of the disease.-VNA
