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  • Disease statistics interview with Mr. Tran Quang Khanh, Deputy Director, Department of Health

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    Health - Life

    Continue to promote propaganda, surveillance and disease prevention hot season
    Updated: Wednesday, 14/07/2010 | 9:39:24 Morning

    Children hospitalized with the disease increases associated with hot weather.
    (HBDT) - In the coming days will still have a few more intense heat waves happen again. I'm not just "cool" as you move into the time in August. Weather changes do not adversely affect small to have health and life of the people. Disease and the risk of outbreak is threatening reality each day. Mr. Tran Quang Khanh, Deputy Director, Department of Health have to share some information around this issue.



    Q: The situation continued disease complicated. Can you tell us the general definition of illness and disease in the country and in the province last time?



    Mr. Tran Quang Khanh: Until this time, the accumulation of infected / number of deaths from the H1N1 influenza outbreak in the country who was 11.213/58. Cholera recorded 60 new cases, appear in four provinces: Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Thanh Hoa and Bac Lieu. Dengue fever also recorded 4143 cases in 47 provinces, including five deaths. Many other diseases such as malaria, meningitis meningococcal, encephalitis virus, hepatitis virus ... continued development. Therefore, the prevention be strengthened through monitoring activities, implementing emergency measures to stamp issued by cholera in cholera outbreak and the local processing time to the outbreak does not spread wide. Ministry of Health held a workshop evaluating the sensitivity of mosquitoes with chemicals in the prevention of dengue fever; Develop communication messages about prevention, organized the conference initiative lower Mekong River, regional cooperation to respond to threats of infectious diseases.



    In our province, but from the beginning of the season so far has not matched the type of dangerous diseases such as cholera, typhoid, dengue fever epidemic, but the risk of return is enormous. Besides being complicated by disease, sporadic epidemics cause direct impacts on health and human life. Specifically, according to statistics from the beginning of this year had over 2,000 people with diarrhea, 422 people with chicken pox, mumps 451 persons, 3082 persons infected with influenza virus fever, 53 cases of the syndrome seat ... Related to the disease most summer include digestive disorders, respiratory tract infections, diarrhea, food poisoning by eating food does not guarantee quality, encephalitis in children.



    Reporter: Faced with the risks and challenges of illness, disease, epidemic prevention and control of the province have been active, enhanced like?



    Mr. Tran Quang Khanh: Before this situation, the provincial health sector has actively combat the epidemic, has organized monitoring schemes, timely detection enclosure, stamping services, and prevention plans Disease of the province, strengthening epidemiological surveillance, quarantine, disinfection, disinfection and patient where the patient's living environment, family, community service areas. Good organizational preparation, training and guidance. Especially the drills H1N1 flu in humans occurred in the province is the World Health Organization, the Health Ministry appreciated. Communication, health education be strengthened, better coordinated propaganda as health education on the means of mass media on how to prevent disease, maintain a diet hygiene , preventing disease and improving life expectancy, printing and distribution of over 10,000 leaflets have content diseases prevention. From there, contributing to increased understanding, if awareness of illness prevention in people.



    The medical establishment to prepare adequate manpower, equipment and medicines meet all requirements when outbreak. Particularly with the district hospitals, the province has received and timely handling of cases, not the occurrence of complications and the occurrence of unfortunate circumstances. The work of examination and treatment is enhanced in human resources, quality examination, treatment and well maintained in these regimes directly 24/24gio month high volume of patients increased and the situation of the disease in summer.



    Q: Could you give some advice to people about disease prevention, health guaranteed dry season, hot



    Mr. Tran Quang Khanh: In warm weather, flies, mosquitoes breeding strong ability to spread disease gastrointestinal tract, dengue fever is very high. It is worth saying that in some places, people exist outside screen habits, sanitation work, personal hygiene is limited in that the pathogens have the opportunity to develop.



    People, especially the elderly, children should limit outside when the weather is too sunny, hot, easy to heatstroke, heatstroke. Make sure the "cooked hot drink, use only quality food, do not use ice of unknown origin. Attach importance to environmental sanitation, which limited the development of flies, mosquitoes, habits are created when the source display. Enhancing nutrition, DMA protection enough, use the fruit, vitamins medium heat bar work, providing enough vitamins for the body. Full implementation of vaccination program prevention summer travel vaccination cholera, typhoid encephalitis.
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    The views expressed are mine alone and do not represent the views of my employer or any other person or organization.
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