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Pregnant women to get A/H1N1 flu shot

The National Vaccination Steering Committee will give the nation’s first 1.2 million doses of A/H1N1 flu vaccine to women more than three months pregnant in all 63 provinces and cities nationwide.
The National Vaccination SteeringCommittee will give the nation’s first 1.2 million doses of A/H1N1 fluvaccine to women more than three months pregnant in all 63 provincesand cities nationwide.

At a meeting of the NationalSteering Board on Flu Prevention in Humans in Hanoi on Nov. 11, Head ofthe Ministry of Health (MoH)’s Department of Preventive Medicine andthe Environment Nguyen Huy Nga said the vaccines, provided by the WorldHealth Organisation, will arrive in Vietnam in mid December, 2009.

The Ministry of Health confirmed that one more pregnant woman has diedfrom the super flu, raising total fatalities due to the disease in thecountry so far to 41, 10 of which were pregnant women.

The latest fatality was a 16-year old who was six months pregnant fromthe Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang . She was hospitalised at theprovincial hospital on Nov. 7 after four days of fever and cough. Herhealth worsened and she died on Nov. 9. She subsequently testedpositive for the influenza virus type A/H1N1.

Nga firmly warned that pregnant woman with any suspected symptomsshould immediately go to the nearest health clinic to receive propertreatment and not attempt to treat themselves at home, to preventfurther complications from delayed treatment.

Deputy Director of the National Institute of Tropical Medicine andInfectious Diseases Nguyen Hong Ha said that it is difficult to definethe real number of A/H1N1 patients in the community. However, thenumber of hospitalised pneumonia patients is on the rise and themajority are testing positive for H1N1, he added./.
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