Increasing number of hand, foot and mouth disease cases

Hand, foot and mouth disease is spread mainly through the digestive tract and often breaks out strongly between March and May and September and October every year. Children are most susceptible to infection due to poor personal hygiene and environmental conditions, especially hygiene skills for children and not washing hands with soap regularly.

Faced with this situation, the Department of Health has issued a directive, requiring relevant units to strengthen the prevention of hand, foot and mouth disease to minimize the number of cases, prevent the risk of death and prevent the disease from spreading in the community.

Accordingly, units are required to strengthen appropriate health education and communication activities to people about measures to prevent hand, foot and mouth disease, and actively implement patriotic hygiene activities to improve people's health.

Practice good environmental hygiene, regularly wash hands with soap, eat clean, live clean and keep children's toys clean; ensure hygienic eating and drinking, coordinate with media agencies, newspapers and grassroots media systems to broadcast and deliver messages and recommendations on hand, foot and mouth disease prevention.

Vigorously implement disease prevention activities in educational institutions, especially nurseries and kindergartens. Educational institutions need to ensure adequate handwashing facilities and soap in convenient locations for both children and caregivers.

Cleaning classrooms, cleaning desks, chairs and toys daily with soap or regular detergents is also mandatory. The health sector also requires schools to strengthen monitoring, detect early cases of the disease and immediately notify local health authorities for timely treatment.

Strengthen surveillance, early detection of outbreaks and thorough handling to prevent the disease from spreading. Medical facilities need to organize treatment routes well, limit referrals for patients who can be treated at lower-level hospitals to reduce the burden on upper-level hospitals.

At the same time, it is necessary to effectively triage, admit, provide emergency care and treat patients, paying special attention to severe cases, minimizing the risk of death. Focus on preventing cross-infection in treatment facilities, especially between hand, foot and mouth disease and other infectious diseases such as measles, pneumonia and respiratory infections.

With these drastic and synchronous measures, the health sector is making efforts to control and repel hand, foot and mouth disease, protecting public health, especially children. People need to raise awareness and voluntarily implement disease prevention measures to join hands with the health sector to prevent the spread of the disease.

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Source: https://baoquangtri.vn/gia-tang-so-ca-mac-benh-chan-tay-mieng-193594.htm