Notably, many of these cases have not been vaccinated against measles. The main reason for this situation is that in the period 2022 - 2023, the COVID-19 epidemic situation has become complicated, causing disruptions in vaccination activities. In addition, the lack of vaccine supply in the expanded immunization program has also caused the vaccination rate for measles and measles-rubella to not meet requirements.
In response to the increasing number of measles cases, in 2024, the Nam Dinh Provincial Department of Health launched a vaccination campaign according to Official Dispatch 4992/BYT-DP dated August 23, 2024 of the Ministry of Health. Accordingly, medical units in the province have reviewed and compiled a list of children aged 1-5 years who have not received enough doses of measles-containing vaccines according to the schedule of the expanded immunization program.
According to statistics, the whole province has 10,369 people who need to be vaccinated against measles, including 9,694 children aged 1-5 and 675 medical staff. The vaccination campaign took place in October 2024 and achieved positive results with 9,918 people vaccinated, reaching a rate of 97.7%.
Mr. Khuong Thanh Vinh, Deputy Director of the Department of Health of Nam Dinh province, said: The winter-spring period with humid weather is a favorable condition for infectious diseases such as flu and measles to develop. Therefore, the Department of Health has advised the Provincial People's Committee to issue Official Dispatch No. 68 dated February 23 to strengthen the work of disease prevention and control, especially measles and respiratory diseases.
At the same time, the Department has issued documents directing close monitoring of the situation of infectious diseases in the area, especially measles; proactively monitoring and early detecting suspected cases of measles at medical facilities, educational institutions, industrial clusters and zones...
On March 15, 2025, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh signed Official Dispatch No. 23/CD-TTg requesting to accelerate the vaccination progress to prevent and control measles.
The telegram clearly stated: the measles epidemic continues to develop complicatedly, with a number of localities still recording a high number of cases. In order to quickly control the epidemic and prevent it from spreading and breaking out on a large scale, the Prime Minister requested the Ministry of Health, ministries, agencies and localities to continue to strictly implement the Prime Minister's Telegram No. 116/CD-TTg dated November 14, 2024 on strengthening measles prevention and control. Request the Minister of Health to continue to direct and support localities to accelerate the implementation of the measles vaccination campaign; end the campaign no later than March 31, 2025. Ensure sufficient measles vaccines and timely distribute them to localities to effectively implement the expanded vaccination program. Direct medical facilities to strictly organize the admission and treatment of patients with measles and suspected measles rash fever, according to the instructions of the Ministry of Health.
Implementing the Prime Minister's telegram and the direction of the Provincial People's Committee, the Department of Health has directed the Provincial Center for Disease Control to coordinate with the medical centers of districts and cities to review the subjects, propose the demand for the number of measles vaccines for children 6-9 months old, the number of measles vaccines for children 1-10 years old to organize a vaccination campaign to prevent and control measles in the province.
On the afternoon of March 17, 2025, the Nam Dinh Department of Health issued Official Dispatch No. 529 to the Department of Disease Prevention (Ministry of Health), proposing the need for 21,660 doses of vaccine to organize a measles vaccination campaign in Nam Dinh province. Specifically, 6,160 doses of vaccine for children 6-9 months old, 15,500 doses of vaccine for children 1-10 years old.
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