To proactively implement activities to prevent and control infectious diseases, and minimize the damage caused by epidemics, the health sector has developed a plan to prevent and control infectious diseases in humans. Thereby, aiming to strengthen the work of preventing and controlling epidemics, promptly controlling and preventing outbreaks, reducing the rate of morbidity and mortality due to infectious diseases, contributing to protecting, caring for and improving people's health. Closely monitor, detect early, respond quickly and thoroughly handle outbreaks, reduce the number of morbidity and mortality due to infectious diseases, promptly prevent dangerous infectious diseases from entering. Since the beginning of the year, the whole province has recorded 38 cases of dengue fever, 4,220 cases of diarrhea, 25,790 cases of flu, 20 cases of mumps, 475 cases of chickenpox, 57 cases of hand, foot and mouth disease...
Recently, 3 patients in a family in Xuan Tien residential group, Hai Thanh ward (Nghi Son town) were admitted to Nghi Son Regional General Hospital with fever and headache. Rapid test results showed that all 3 patients were positive for dengue fever.
According to specialist doctor Le Van Long, Deputy Director of Nghi Son Town Medical Center, in just over a week, Nghi Son Town has continuously recorded cases of domestic dengue fever in many wards and communes in the area. Given the complicated developments of the epidemic, the health sector has increased surveillance to promptly detect infected and suspected cases. The medical center has conducted an investigation and determined that in the past 14 days, the patients have not left the locality. At the same time, larvae and mosquitoes transmitting dengue fever were detected in the area where the patients lived.
Mr. Le Hong Son, Head of the Department of Infectious Disease Prevention, Thanh Hoa Provincial Center for Disease Control, said: With the goal of preventing infectious disease outbreaks, the department has implemented a regular anti-epidemic regime, periodically reporting daily to the Department of Health, the Central Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, the Department of Preventive Medicine, and the Ministry of Health on the epidemic situation in the locality according to regulations. Actively monitor and closely supervise the epidemic situation and promptly notify and direct units and localities to deploy proactive response measures, prevent epidemic outbreaks, and limit the rate of morbidity and mortality due to epidemics. Implement key surveillance, event-based surveillance, and periodic surveillance to promptly detect the first cases. Implement response measures to prevent the spread and outbreak of epidemics in the community. Provide accurate, timely, and complete information on epidemiology and related factors as a basis for proactive disease prevention and control planning. Coordinate with the testing department, assign COVID-19 test samples and send samples to the Central Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology to perform gene sequencing to early detect variants of the Omicron strain circulating in Thanh Hoa...
Along with that, the Provincial Center for Disease Control has directed the medical centers of districts/towns/cities to develop a plan to implement the first phase of the environmental sanitation and mosquito larvae eradication campaign in 2023. As of June 30, 2023, 100% of the communes at risk have periodically organized environmental sanitation and mosquito larvae eradication activities to prevent dengue fever at the village and hamlet level with the participation of health workers and local authorities. Medical centers of districts, towns and cities organize chemical spraying campaigns to proactively prevent and control dengue fever according to the instructions of the Ministry of Health; coordinate with provincial hospitals, district hospitals, district, town and city medical centers to monitor and handle dengue fever outbreaks in the community.
Article and photos: To Ha
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