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Vietnam: Dengue up 160% in Ho Chi Minh City

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Editor, Senior Moderator
(HNM) - The Department of Preventive Health (MOH), the number of people suffering from hemorrhagic fever (DHF) in the country nine months decreased 46% over the same period in 2010. However, this time in Ho Chi Minh has the number of dengue cases up to 9,125 songs, up 1.6 times, including five deaths.


Complicated
October is projected to peak month of dengue and this situation will go from November onwards when the weather is less rain.
However, dengue is worrying is peaked, while the service manual - foot - mouth has also complicated and prolonged, increasing pressure on health care system of TP Ho Chi Minh.

According to Pham Ba Thanh (Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City), in recent weeks, the number of dengue-related visit at about 550-580 cases / week, or about 80 cases / day. People are just sick of dengue in the different, to inpatient treatment is more than 400 people, including 22 patients who have severe long-term therapy.
Mr. Thanh said: "Compared to a year in 2010 dengue outbreak strong, this year the number of people to visit but reduced but the number of hospitalization was equal '.

At a Children's Hospital, Department of dengue are more than 30 dengue patients inpatient, day hospital usually receives about 10 new cases, including some severe cases.
Not only children with dengue that many adults with this disease. Last month, the majority of dengue patients in the province is moving on, but recently the majority of children hospitalized in Ho Chi Minh lived.
24/24 districts have people with dengue but is most concentrated in districts 6, 8, Tan Phu, Binh Chanh, Nha Be ...
Dr. Nguyen Thi Cam Huong (Vice-Dean D infections, Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh) said D department specializes in treating dengue-infected men. Average 30-40 here to receive new patients / day, peak up to 60 cases.


http://hanoimoi.com.vn/newsdetail/Suc-khoe/527045/muon-chong-phai-phong.htm
 
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