Ha Nam: Medical workers get training on effective dengue prevention
A training workshop was organised for medical workers in the northern province of Ha Nam, about 50km south of Hanoi, on August 17 to improve their skills and capacity to deliver effective dengue prevention at all levels.
Ha Nam (VNA) – A training workshop wasorganised for medical workers in the northern province of Ha Nam, about 50kmsouth of Hanoi, on August 17 to improve their skills and capacity to delivereffective dengue prevention at all levels.
The event was co-held by the National Institute ofHygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE) and the provincial Centre for Disease Control.
Experts from the NIHE provided the attendees with basicknowledge on dengue fever epidemiology, dengue vectors and methods to treatdengue hotspots and others.
The health workers were also introduced to differenttypes of mosquito foggers and anti-mosquito chemicals and how to mix chemicalsubstances to kill and repel mosquitos as well as proper ways to clean up theenvironment around houses and at work.
According to Deputy Director of the Ha Nam Centre forDisease Control Nguyen Ngoc Anh, more than 800 people across the province wereinfected with dengue fever last year with some 600 having travelled back fromHanoi and other provinces.
Thanks to the province’s preventive efforts, no death wasreported due to dengue, he said, adding that this year, Ha Nam has recorded twodengue fever cases so far.
The training has helped local health workers become moreactive in preventing dengue fever this year which is forecast to be morecomplicated, Anh said.
Dengue fever is an acute viral disease spread by twokinds of mosquitoes – Aedes Aegypti and Aedes Albopictus., with no specificvaccine and treatment established to date.
The disease is common in tropical countries. In Vietnam,peak season of the disease lasts from July to October. As the virus is dividedinto four types – D1, D2, D3 and D4, a person can be infected many times.
Vietnam experienced a boom of dengue fever in 2017 when 181,054 infection casesand 30 deaths were reported in almost all localities, mostly Hanoi and Ho ChiMinh City.
Last month, Ho Chi Minh City reported the first deathcaused by the disease in 2018. –VNA
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Illustrative image. (Photo: VNA)
