Although the number of cases decreased compared to the same period in the same period in 2023, from 37 weeks to now the city's number of cases tends to increase continuously weekly and have recorded a case of death due to dengue fever.
If including the southern region, the number of cases this year is lower than last year.According to the supervision data of the Pasteur Institute of Ho Chi Minh City, the number of dengue fever accumulated from the beginning of the year to the week 45/2024 of the Southern region was 44,980, down 26.4% over the same period in 2023.
Through monitoring the risk points causing dengue epidemics, the City Disease Control Center (HCDC) has recorded the risk points with larvae.The risk of dengue fever appears everywhere and is associated with the daily life of each family, present everywhere from the inner to the suburbs and all districts and wards.Therefore, the risk of dengue fever will continue to increase if we do not take drastic measures.
Recently, dengue vaccine has been licensed to use in Vietnam.Creating active immunity by vaccines is a measure to prevent the risk of disease, reduce the risk of hospitalization and serious illness.Vaccine vaccinated with dengue is part of the overall solution to prevent dengue fever.Measures to eliminate mosquito breeding, preventing mosquito bites should be maintained regularly even after vaccinations have been vaccinated.
The control of dengue epidemics needs to have the participation of all levels of government, mass organizations, units and from each family.In order to strengthen the prevention of dengue fever in the last months of the year, the Department of Health proposed the district health centers, the ward health station to conduct investigations, the land of the disease, the outbreak of dengue fever thoroughly abovearea.Units need to closely monitor the epidemic situation in the area to provide timely and effective treatment to prevent the disease outbreak and spread.In addition, the strict supervision and control of the risk of Dengue dengue disease in the area also needs to be implemented at the same time.
The Department of Health also asked the People's Committees of districts and wards to continue drastically implementing activities such as: Maintaining the activity of eliminating the reproductive place of mosquitoes transmitting dengue fever;Promote communication activities to prevent epidemics and sanction administrative violations in disease prevention.The education sector needs to strengthen epidemic prevention activities in schools, especially not to generate water containing water to generate larvae and mosquitoes;At the same time, implementing disease monitoring measures as well as communication skills for parents.
For departments, agencies, the Department of Health noted that it is necessary to proactively deploy the prevention of dengue fever in agencies and units and within the scope of their management.The risk of dengue appears scattered everywhere, just a few days of water stagnation will become a reproductive place for mosquitoes.Therefore, in each activity of each department, it is necessary to have an impact on the surrounding environment, to the risk of disease generation so that there are measures to solve basis.Unions need to depend on the union members and members to choose the appropriate contents of the epidemic prevention and integration into the union activities to change the behavior of the union members and members as well as participate in campaigns.Mobilizing the community launched by local governments.
And the important thing is that each individual and family needs to actively find and eliminate containers capable of generating larvae.When a family has symptoms of dengue fever suspected, it is necessary to go to medical facilities to be diagnosed and instructed to take care of appropriate treatment.