Health Ministry takes urgent actions to tackle measles
10:05, 2014/04/28
The Health Ministry has issued a plan on giving free measles vaccinations to children under 10 years and proposed buying an extra 1.2 million doses of measles vaccines.
The free vaccination campaign for children under 10 years will be conducted from May to July.
According to the Health Ministry, localities of high risk of measles are Hanoi, Hai Duong, Hai Phong, Hung Yen, Bac Giang, Vinh Phuc and Quang Ninh provinces in the north, the central provinces of Nghe An and Thanh Hoa, and Binh Duong province and Ho Chi Minh City in the south.
The target cities and provinces are requested to provide mobile vaccination service in addition to those at designated sites, with the aim of having all children get two shots of vaccines.
The ministry also asked provincial and districts authorities to announce the vaccination plan on the mass media including television, radio and newspapers so that the information reach all the people.
Statistics show that since the beginning of 2014, Vietnam has recorded 3,647 measles cases across 61 out of the 63 provinces and cities.
The suggestion for buying extra vaccines was made during its meeting with the Steering Committee for the Prevention and Control of Dangerous and Emerging Diseases in Hanoi on April 24.
Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien hailed the Hanoi medical sector for its effective vaccination campaign, with 97 percent of children given shots, promising that no new case will emerge in the next two weeks.
Le Thanh Hai, Director of the National Hospital of Paediatrics, said the daily number of those seeking check-ups has plunged to 200-300 from 2,500-3,000. However, his hospital is still treating over 300 severe measles-linked cases, a high figure, he added.
The capital city remains a hotbed of the disease, with over 700 patients receiving hospital treatment, said Deputy Director of the Hanoi Health Department Hoang Duc Hanh.
The same day, the department joined a teleconference with 27 municipal units, in which it stated that as of April 22 Hanoi had recorded 1,339 cases of measles during this outbreak, leading to the deaths of 54 people as either a direct result of the virus or else from complications caused by it.
Also on April 24, the ministry asked municipal and provincial health departments to offer more rounds of vaccination, ensuring that over 95 percent of children in the country are fully immunised by late April.
Local hospitals must set up more isolation areas and minimise bacterial contamination. Meanwhile, central hospitals are required to offer treatment guidance to satellite and local units and make daily reports on their treatment.
The institutes of hygiene and epidemiology and the Institute of Pasteur must provide enough vaccines and all necessary equipment along the way, the ministry said.
The target cities and provinces are requested to provide mobile vaccination service in addition to those at designated sites, with the aim of having all children get two shots of vaccines.
The ministry also asked provincial and districts authorities to announce the vaccination plan on the mass media including television, radio and newspapers so that the information reach all the people.
Statistics show that since the beginning of 2014, Vietnam has recorded 3,647 measles cases across 61 out of the 63 provinces and cities.
The suggestion for buying extra vaccines was made during its meeting with the Steering Committee for the Prevention and Control of Dangerous and Emerging Diseases in Hanoi on April 24.
Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien hailed the Hanoi medical sector for its effective vaccination campaign, with 97 percent of children given shots, promising that no new case will emerge in the next two weeks.
Le Thanh Hai, Director of the National Hospital of Paediatrics, said the daily number of those seeking check-ups has plunged to 200-300 from 2,500-3,000. However, his hospital is still treating over 300 severe measles-linked cases, a high figure, he added.
The capital city remains a hotbed of the disease, with over 700 patients receiving hospital treatment, said Deputy Director of the Hanoi Health Department Hoang Duc Hanh.
The same day, the department joined a teleconference with 27 municipal units, in which it stated that as of April 22 Hanoi had recorded 1,339 cases of measles during this outbreak, leading to the deaths of 54 people as either a direct result of the virus or else from complications caused by it.
Also on April 24, the ministry asked municipal and provincial health departments to offer more rounds of vaccination, ensuring that over 95 percent of children in the country are fully immunised by late April.
Local hospitals must set up more isolation areas and minimise bacterial contamination. Meanwhile, central hospitals are required to offer treatment guidance to satellite and local units and make daily reports on their treatment.
The institutes of hygiene and epidemiology and the Institute of Pasteur must provide enough vaccines and all necessary equipment along the way, the ministry said.
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