Vice Director of the HCM City Department of Health speaks at the event (Photo: VNA)HCM City (VNA) – Ho Chi
Minh City’s Department of Health on May 11 launched a campaign on preventing and
combating dengue fever in response to (June 15).
Speaking at the event, Nguyen Huu
Hung, Vice Director of the Department of Health, said the peak of the campaign
will last until the end of June while a range of activities will be held throughout
the year.
The campaign will focus on
sanitation work to kill mosquito larva and clean the environment in districts,
particularly areas infected by the disease, on a weekly basis. Frequent
inspections will also be carried out to promptly detect and tackle
outbreaks.
Cars bearing anti-dengue fever ads parade HCM City streets as part of the launch (Photo: VNA)
Statistics from the department
showed that the number of dengue fever cases has been on the rise in recent
years. In 2018 alone, about 28,000 people were hospitalised due to the disease,
10 of them were killed.
Vaccine for dengue fever has only
been tested in a number of countries and has yet to be available in Vietnam. As
such, locals are recommended to actively kill mosquito larva at home and at
working places.-VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
