Military-Civil Medical Cooperation in Disease Prevention and Control

According to Chapter II of Decree 118/2018/ND-CP, the regulations on combining military and civilian medical systems in the prevention and control of pandemics are as follows:

- Combination in propaganda about pandemic prevention and control includes the following contents:

- Propaganda and education for the people and troops about the following contents: personal hygiene, environmental hygiene, and food safety; risks, transmission routes, and measures for pandemic prevention and control;- Propaganda to raise awareness about the responsibility of agencies, organizations, and individuals in pandemic prevention and control.

- Combination in investigation, supervision, and intervention in pandemic prevention and control includes the following contents:

- Organizing epidemiological investigations and monitoring the pandemic situation;- Implementing environmental hygiene measures, managing biological waste, medical waste, and implementing disinfection measures, eliminating pathogens, and disease transmission intermediaries at localities and units;- Executing an expanded immunization program for the people and troops;- Implementing necessary medical isolation measures;- Organizing training sessions and drills for pandemic prevention and control plans suitable to the actual situation at localities;- Combining in organizing the admission and treatment of infectious disease patients when pandemics occur;- Conducting training and continuous training on professional techniques in epidemiological investigation, monitoring, diagnosing, and managing, treating infectious diseases that can become pandemics;- Researching pathogens that have the potential to cause pandemics in humans, their transmission routes, disease transmission intermediaries, and developing techniques for monitoring and identifying pandemic-causing pathogens.

See more related content at: Decree 118/2018/ND-CP issued on September 12, 2018, and effective from October 30, 2018.

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