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VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City is facing the spread of various diseases at the
same time. The number of hand-food-mouth patients hit a record while dengue
fever and malaria have appeared.
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The city also had 1,882 hand-foot-mouth patients in July, 5.9 times higher than July 2010, and around 6,650 cases in the January – July period, 3.4 folds more than that of the same period of last year.
Notably, up to 22 people died of hand-foot-mouth so far this year while the figure was only 1 last year. This disease has spread to 295 wards and communes in HCM City.
While hand-foot-mouth and dengue fever is expanding, malaria out-broke in Hiep Phuoc commune, Nha Be district as of July 9, with 40 cases so far.
The city’s healthcare sector is implementing urgent measures to prevent the development of these epidemics.
In related news, a working team has come to the southern provinces of Binh Phuoc and Tay Ninh on August 10 to examine the situation of the hand-foot-mouth disease and help local authorities control and prevent the spread of the disease.
It is the first of the ten teams that have been set up to strengthen control over hand-foot-mouth in 25 provinces and cities suffering the most from the epidemic, including HCM City, An Giang, Dong Thap, Long An, Dak Nong, Gia Lai, and Kon Tum.
The eight other teams will be sent to the remaining 20 localities within the second half of this month, he added.
So far this year, the death toll from hand-foot-mouth in Vietnam has been recorded at 79 in 16 provinces and cities, with the highest number of 22 in HCM City, followed by Dong Nai, Binh Duong, Long An, Quang Ngai and Ba Ria-Vung Tau.
The epidemic has now spread to 49 cities and provinces, with 29,207 patients, over four times higher than last year. Children under five have accounted for more than 96 percent of hand-foot-mouth disease.
Thanh Huyen
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