Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung (first from left) visits a dengue patient at the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases in the capital city on September 4 (Photo: anninhthudo.vn)Hanoi (VNA) – The number of dengue patients in the capital city continues
to decline, but preventive efforts must continue, said Chairman Nguyen Duc
Chung of the .
Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee Hoang Trung Hai and
Chairman on
September 4 chaired a meeting on prevention with the city’s
leaders.
Citywide, 861 fewer dengue patients were reported in the last
week of August compared to the first week, according to official statistics.
The number of dengue inpatients also dropped to 2,200 per day
in the last week of August from 2,500 per day in the week before.
As
for the inner city’s Hoang Mai district, which had the highest number of dengue
patients in the city since the beginning of this year, only about 360 remained
in hospital compared to 468 at the peak of the fever’s season.
Reports
from the inner city’s Dong Da district also showed a downward trend in the
number of dengue patients in the last three weeks. There were about 190 new
dengue patients in the district in the last week of August, a decrease of 94
patients compared to the week before.
Fewer
were also reported over the last week in the inner city’s
districts of Thanh Xuan and Cau Giay, and the outer city’s districts of Ha Dong,
Thanh Tri, and Thuong Tin.
All 584 communes and wards of the city’s 30 districts have
set up working teams to kill mosquito larvae and supervisory teams to monitor
the fever’s progress, according to reports.
Speaking
at the meeting, Chung requested all districts “not to loosen their grip on
monitoring the fever despite the reduction in its level of severity”.
He
highlighted the essential measures that must continue to be applied to prevent
further spreading of the fever. These include providing citizens with constant
updates on the fever’s progress, spraying chemical substances to kill
mosquitoes in areas of outbreaks, ensuring the chemicals are high quality and
widely accessible for citizens, as well as strengthening hospitals’ dengue
treatment capabilities.
Hoang Trung Hai, Secretary
of the Hanoi Party Committee, said that he appreciated the active involvement
of leaders from the districts and other concerned authorities in dengue
prevention. Their efforts had brought demonstrable progress, he
said.
“However, since the disease is likely to last until November,
there should not be any hesitation in applying preventive measures to make sure
it will not surge again,” he said.
After
the meeting, the city’s leaders visited and checked the dengue prevention
process at the National Hospital of Tropical
Diseases and a number of schools in Hai Ba Trung district.
About
24,300 dengue patients have been recorded in the city from the beginning of
this year. Seven of them died.
The
highest numbers of patients were recorded in the four inner city districts of
Hoang Mai (3,756), Dong Da (3,578), Hai Ba Trung (2,164), and Thanh Xuan
(2,014).-VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
