Hanoi’s Department of Health is intensifying measures to prevent Japanese encephalitis.
Medical preventive units are to strengthen inspection efforts athospitals and in the community to promptly detect cases for timelytreatment.
The health sector is also responsible for raisingpublic awareness of outbreak prevention and encouraging families tovaccinate their children on the recommended schedule.
It will also open training courses for health workers to quickly identify symptoms of the disease.
The city’s health department advised that maintaining environmentalhygiene and receiving prompt and sufficient vaccinations are effectivemeasures to prevent the disease.
Children are recommended toreceive three doses of the vaccine: the first when they areone-year-old, the second one or two weeks after that, and the third oneyear after the first. For maintenance, children should receive boostervaccinations once every three or four years until they reach 15 yearsold.
According to Deputy Director of the municipal Departmentof Health Hoang Duc Hanh, Japanese encephalitis is a perniciouscommunicable disease caused by mosquito bites.
The diseasespreads around the year, especially in summer. Children under 15 yearsold are especially susceptible to the virus, particularly those who havenot been vaccinated, he stressed.
In the first five months of this year, Hanoi recorded nine cases but no fatalities.-VNA
Medical preventive units are to strengthen inspection efforts athospitals and in the community to promptly detect cases for timelytreatment.
The health sector is also responsible for raisingpublic awareness of outbreak prevention and encouraging families tovaccinate their children on the recommended schedule.
It will also open training courses for health workers to quickly identify symptoms of the disease.
The city’s health department advised that maintaining environmentalhygiene and receiving prompt and sufficient vaccinations are effectivemeasures to prevent the disease.
Children are recommended toreceive three doses of the vaccine: the first when they areone-year-old, the second one or two weeks after that, and the third oneyear after the first. For maintenance, children should receive boostervaccinations once every three or four years until they reach 15 yearsold.
According to Deputy Director of the municipal Departmentof Health Hoang Duc Hanh, Japanese encephalitis is a perniciouscommunicable disease caused by mosquito bites.
The diseasespreads around the year, especially in summer. Children under 15 yearsold are especially susceptible to the virus, particularly those who havenot been vaccinated, he stressed.
In the first five months of this year, Hanoi recorded nine cases but no fatalities.-VNA
