What is the content of implementing winter-spring epidemic prevention work in Hanoi, Vietnam, in 2023?
Winter-Spring epidemic prevention work in Hanoi, Vietnam in 2023 (Internet image)
On November 9, 2023, Hanoi People's Committee issued Official Dispatch 3795/UBND-KGVX implementing the prevention and control of winter-spring epidemics in the City.
In the coming time, as the winter-spring climate conditions will be very favorable for infectious diseases to arise and develop, especially diseases transmitted through the respiratory and digestive tract such as measles, rubella, whooping cough, meningococcal meningitis, avian influenza, COVID-19, influenza A/H7N9, influenza A/H5N1, diarrhea caused by rotavirus... the City People's Committee requires units to implement the following:
- The Department of Health drastically implements disease control work, strengthens surveillance activities, early detection, immediate response, and thorough handling of outbreaks, preventing them from spreading and prolonging in the community; focuses on implementing vaccination work; well organizes the distribution, admission, emergency care, and treatment of patients; avoids cross-infection in medical examination and treatment facilities; minimizes human deaths due to epidemics; and promptly proposes to the City People's Committee effective disease prevention and control measures consistent with local epidemiological developments. For diseases that have vaccines to prevent, such as measles, rubella, and whooping cough, carry out vaccination work and review vaccination subjects.
- The Department of Education and Training strongly implements disease prevention hygiene activities at educational establishments and schools; proactively coordinates with the health sector to organize propaganda and education and raise awareness about disease prevention and control measures; ensures food safety in collective kitchens; provides enough drinking water and clean water; and regularly cleans the environment at schools; Coordinate good health management for students, staff, and teachers; detect disease cases early; immediately notify health authorities for timely examination and treatment; and be determined not to let the epidemic spread.
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- The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development strongly implements disease prevention and control measures in livestock and poultry herds, strengthens inspection, supervision, early detection of outbreaks in animals, and treatment completely eliminates the outbreak; timely notifies the health sector to coordinate measures to prevent and control diseases spread from animals and food to humans.
- The Department of Information and Communications guides mass media and grassroots media agencies to promote communication work on winter-spring disease prevention. Strongly propagate the benefits of vaccination to help people understand and get their children vaccinated fully and on schedule; instruct people to practice good environmental hygiene and personal hygiene and regularly wash hands with soap; eat cooked food and drink cooked food; implement food safety in slaughtering livestock and poultry and processing products from livestock and poultry.
- Department of Industry and Trade presides and coordinates with the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Police, Customs, and relevant units to strengthen inspection, thoroughly prevent diseased, smuggled, or unknown-origin poultry and poultry products, and strictly handle violations. Minimize winter-spring epidemics that can break out.
- People's Committees at all levels strengthen the implementation of epidemic prevention work in the winter-spring season; Focus on implementing disease prevention in areas with difficult access to medical services, areas with population mobility, old outbreaks, and low vaccination rates in recent years. Drastically deploy measures to prevent dangerous diseases that are at risk of entering Vietnam and diseases transmitted through the respiratory tract.
- Recommend that the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Hanoi:
Coordinate and direct affiliated units, unions, pOlitical and socio-political organizations strengthen communication, mobilize people to participate in epidemic prevention and control, and proactively implement epidemic prevention and control measures at their units according to instructions from the health sector.
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