Vietnam: Hanoi still reports a high level of dengue fever
The Department of Preventive Medicine for the Vietnam Ministry of Health reported 1,715 new dengue fever cases, with 33 new outbreaks in 13 districts and towns and 88 active outbreaks in 19 districts and towns in Hanoi the last week in November 2023, still a very high level.
For the first eleven months of the year, Hanoi has recorded 37,441 cases of dengue fever and 4 deaths.
Officials, to control the epidemic, have requested from the city:
Enhance the roles and responsibilities of governments at all levels
Assign specific responsibilities to governments at all levels and mobilize the participation of governments, departments, branches and organizations at the grassroots level to coordinate with the health sector to implement launch campaigns to clean the environment and kill larvae/larvae;
Maintain the implementation of community dengue prevention and control teams, propagate, guide and monitor the removal of larvae and larvae with the message "spend 10 minutes every week to kill larvae/larvae" at household.
Continue to strengthen inspection, supervision, and urge localities and units to deploy activities to prevent and control dengue fever in the area.
Closely monitor the epidemic situation in the area, early detection of dengue outbreaks;
Coordinate with relevant forces to strengthen environmental sanitation, thoroughly eliminate larvae, handle disease cases, and organize chemical spraying as soon as an outbreak is detected, ensuring effectiveness and thoroughness. Do not let the outbreak spread widely and continue for a long time.
Organize patient treatment, follow the correct treatment regimen, and minimize deaths.
Do a good job of classifying patients and assigning treatment routes, avoiding the phenomenon of patients arriving late to the hospital without receiving timely emergency treatment or treatment or causing hospital overload.
At the same time, continue to ensure logistics, funding, drugs, biological products, supplies, chemicals, equipment, and human resources to be ready to serve the prevention and control of dengue fever and other epidemics according to the law.
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The Ministry of Health requested the Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee to direct the Department of Information and Communications, media agencies, newspapers and grassroots media systems to continue to strengthen communication activities on prevention and control.
Dengue fever recommendations of the Ministry of Health on mass media: Propagate and provide complete and timely information so that people know, proactively prevent, do not panic, worry and do not affect local socio-economic development activities.
Nationally, Vietnam has reported a cumulative 149,557 dengue cases, including 36 deaths (CFR :0.02%) through November 19, a fifty percent decrease from the same time in 2022.