Illustrative image (Source: VNA)Hanoi
(VNA) – The prevention and treatment of winter-spring diseases should be
implemented effectively and synchronically, Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim
Tien said at a teleconference on January 4.
Tien asked medical establishments to soon detect infection cases to reduce the
number of fatalities, while paying attention to and
in hospitals.
At the same time, it is necessary to increase public awareness of preventive
measures, the minister said.
Speaking at the conference, Director of the Health Ministry’s Preventive
Medicine Department Tran Dac Phu said dangerous and newly-emerging diseases
like avian influenza A/H7N7, Mers-Cov and bubonic plague are very likely to
penetrate into Vietnam and break out if drastic preventive measures are not
taken.
The cold weather and crowded festivals in the winter-spring seasons could
facilitate the development of such diseases as avian influenza, whooping cough,
diphtheria, measles, rubella, meningitis and diarrhoea, he said, warning that
dengue fever is forecast to develop more complicatedly in 2018.
Luong Ngoc Khue, Director of the Health Ministry’s Medical Examination and
Treatment Department, said his department has asked medical centres to provide
training for health workers and planned to decentralise medical treatment of
.
According to the Preventive Medicine Department, the number of measles cases
dropped by 29.2 percent in 2017 compared with the previous year and no deaths
caused by the disease were reported.
Meanwhile, 183,287 cases of dengue fever were reported in all 63 cities and
provinces of the country, killing 30 people, and 105,953 cases of
hand-foot-mouth disease were recorded in the year with one death.-VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
