Many localities in the Mekong Delta are experiencing a worse outbreak of pink eye in children; thus, the health sector in localities is currently focusing on combating and controlling the epidemic.
This time of the year is when Vietnam sees a significant rise in infectious diseases like chickenpox, diphtheria, hand-foot-mouth disease, respiratory diseases.
Amid the prediction of serious hand-foot-mouth disease and dengue fever in upcoming months, the health sector of Ho Chi Minh City has proactively implemented control measures against the infectious diseases since May.
HCMC Center for Disease Control (HCDC) yesterday informed that the genotype B5 of Enterovirus 71 EV71 was successfully detected (EV71) in three major children hospitals of the city.
Last week, the number of dengue fever cases decreased by 32.5 percent compared to the four-week average, with the number of inpatients down 37.6 percent, outpatients down 27.1 percent, and no deaths were recorded.
Currently, about 75 percent of dengue deaths are adults. There are cases of late arrival at the hospital, which increases the risk of death due to the lack of timely treatment, according to the Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control (HCDC) today.
The merchandise amount to stabilize the Ho Chi Minh City market during the month of Quy Mao Tet holiday 2023 is estimated to satisfy 25-43 percent of the community’s demands. This is the information delivered by Deputy Director of the HCMC Department of Industry and Trade Le Huynh Minh in yesterday’s October summary meeting for socio-economic-medical tasks in the city.
The Department of Health of Ho Chi Minh City, on August 14, said that the city had recorded 17 deaths from dengue fever. The number of new cases recorded daily is still around 500-600 cases, a high level compared to the same period in previous years.
After the World Health Organization (WHO) declared monkeypox as a global health emergency, the Department of Health of Ho Chi Minh City has just organized training programs to guide the diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of monkeypox cases for nearly 250 students from hospitals and health centers in the city.
A working delegation of Ho Chi Minh City led by Deputy Secretary of the municipal Party Committee Nguyen Ho Hai this morning did a survey of Covid-19 and dengue prevention and control works in District 4.
Delegates continued to discuss contents that voters are concerned about, and representatives of departments and units answered questions and reported issues in the sectors under their management at the second meeting of the sixth plenary session of the tenth-tenure People’s Council of Ho Chi Minh City on July 7.
According to Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam, thanks to Covid-19 vaccines, the disease has been controlled, making people subjective, so the injection of the third and fourth doses tends to slow down. Although the number of new Covid-19 cases has decreased, the risk that the Covid-19 pandemic recurs still lingers if people are reluctant to get vaccinated.
The weather in Ho Chi Minh City is changed rapidly and unexpectedly between intense heat waves and sudden rain. This has led to an increase in the number of people catching seasonal influenza with mild or severe symptoms.
The People's Committee of Hoc Mon District in Ho Chi Minh City, on the morning of May 30, held the launching ceremony of the campaign to respond to the 12th ASEAN Dengue Day in 2022.
Mr. Duong Anh Duc, Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City, and his delegation checked on the actual prevention of dengue fever in Hoc Mon District on the morning of May 25.
Mr. Duong Anh Duc, Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City, and his delegation checked on the actual prevention of dengue fever in Hoc Mon District on the morning of May 25.
Increased cases of Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease (HFMD) and dengue fever have been reported in HCMC in the first 20 weeks of this year, said the HCMC Center for Disease Control (HCDC) on May 24.
The Ministry of Health yesterday sent an urgent dispatch on strengthening the prevention of hand, foot and mouth disease to people's committees in cities and provinces.
Speaking about the development of dengue fever in Ho Chi Minh City, Deputy Executive Director of the city Center for Disease Control Nguyen Hong Tam said that dengue fever in the southern metropolis prompts red alerts.
The hot, changing weather right now provides favorable conditions for hand-foot-mouth disease (HFM) and dengue fever (DHF) to spread widely in Ho Chi Minh City and other Southern provinces. Healthcare experts have warned of ‘epidemic within epidemic’ unless proper solutions are adopted to timely protect the public health.
