Hanoi’s health sector prepares to tackle dengue fever
Hanoi’s Department of Health has sent a document to medical stations and drugstores in the capital city to ensure they have enough medicine to prevent and treat dengue fever.
Hanoi’s Department of Health has sent a document to medical stations and drugstores in the capital city to ensure they have enough medicine to prevent and treat dengue fever. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Hanoi’s Department of Health has sent a document to medicalstations and drugstores in the capital city to ensure they have enoughmedicine to prevent and treat dengue fever.
The movescame after seven deaths from the disease were reported in the central andsouthern provinces and cities: Binh Phuoc, Binh Thuan, Khanh Hoa, Quang Bình,Tien Giang, Binh Duong and Ho Chi Minh City.
Thedepartment asked medical stations to connect with businesses that produce,trade and import medications to prepare enough medicine to treat thedisease.
Thestations must keep track of the situation as it progresses to help withdiagnosis and treatment.
Thedepartment emphasised that the disease could occur after the flood season somedical providers must remain vigilant.
Thedepartment instructed drugstores to ensure the quality of their medicine andmaintain prices at reasonable levels.
After theseven fatalities, the Drug Administration of Vietnam under the Ministry ofHealth (MoH) asked departments of health, hospitals andmedicine businesses to set up plans to supply enough medicine todeal with the disease.
Vietnamhas to date detected more than 96,000 cases of dengue fever so far this year,according to the Preventive Medicines Department under the MoH.
Thecapital city of Hanoi has reported more than 1,300 patients and nocasualties.-VNA
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The number of dengue fever cases in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa has reduced, but serious ones increased although this has yet been the peak season of the disease, according to local health authority.
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Hanoi’s Department of Health has sent a document to medical stations and drugstores in the capital city to ensure they have enough medicine to prevent and treat dengue fever. (Photo: VNA) 
