Hanoi health sector proactively develops response plans for storm No. 3

Due to the impact of the storm and the circulation of storm No. 3 (storm Wipha), Hanoi is forecast to have moderate rain, heavy rain and some places will have very heavy rain. To proactively respond to the impact of this storm, the Hanoi health sector has proactively developed the best plans and conditions to ensure timely and effective emergency, medical examination and treatment for local people.

Medical staff instruct people in Hanoi to take measures to prevent and control epidemics during rain and storms.

Like many medical examination and treatment facilities in Hanoi, Van Dinh General Hospital is actively implementing medical work to promptly respond to the impacts that storm No. 3 may cause.

Deputy Director of Van Dinh General Hospital, Nguyen Huy Thong, said that the hospital has prepared enough human resources to be ready to serve emergency and medical examination and treatment work. The hospital has strengthened the 24/7 professional on-call duty at the unit, ensuring good maintenance of medical examination and treatment activities, and is ready to receive emergency treatment for patients and victims affected by natural disasters and catastrophes in the area under the unit's responsibility.

Doctors and nurses at Van Dinh General Hospital reinforce the door system in departments and rooms.

In addition, the hospital has also directed departments and offices to closely monitor the weather situation, prepare response plans according to the "4 on-site" motto, ensuring timely handling in all situations; conduct comprehensive inspections of facilities, from window and door systems to electrical systems, transmission cables and patient rooms and offices to promptly reinforce to avoid risks such as flying roofs, collapsing walls, flooding due to overloaded drainage systems; fully stock medicines, chemicals, along with essential equipment for disaster prevention and control.

The hospital also arranges a team of doctors and nurses on duty 24/7; establishes mobile emergency teams that are always ready to support when necessary, ensuring that all situations are handled promptly and effectively.

Meanwhile, according to Director of Duc Giang General Hospital, Nguyen Van Thuong: in addition to fully preparing medicines, chemicals, medical supplies, and essential necessities to serve patients, the hospital has assigned medical staff to always be ready to provide emergency care, transport victims, and guide and direct environmental sanitation, disease prevention and control; comprehensively inspect the infrastructure system, prevent roof damage, flooding, and power outages; ensure professional activities, examination and treatment for patients at the hospital 24/7, be ready to receive emergency care, carry out admission, emergency care and treatment for victims caused by storms.

Duc Giang General Hospital is ready to receive emergency care and medical examination and treatment for local people in all situations.

The hospital also arranged on-duty crews, storm prevention and control teams, vehicle teams and external emergency teams to always monitor weather developments, storm No. 3 and post-storm circulation, ready to support and respond 24/7 to agencies, support lower-level units and local people when requested or when ordered by superiors.

In order to support localities in promptly responding to storm No. 3, the Hanoi Center for Disease Control has established eight mobile teams to promptly support communes and wards in disease prevention and control, and handling urgent public health situations. At the same time, it has directed local medical units to strengthen propaganda work to help people proactively prevent and control diseases such as measures to ensure environmental hygiene after floods; how to treat domestic water sources; how to recognize and prevent some common diseases and some diseases that can break out after storms and floods..., helping people to be proactive in disease prevention and health protection.

In addition, to proactively prevent and fight epidemics during the rainy and stormy season, the Hanoi health sector recommends that people choose and prepare food safely and hygienically, eat cooked food and boiled water; regularly wash hands with soap before and after preparing food, before eating and after using the toilet; practice personal hygiene daily, wash feet and dry between toes after contact with flood water or contaminated water.

Strictly implement the principle of cleaning up as water drains, collecting and disposing of animal and poultry carcasses according to the instructions of medical staff; in case water sources such as drilled wells and open wells are flooded, they must be filtered and disinfected before use; wash water tanks, wells, water containers and use chemicals to disinfect drinking and domestic water according to the instructions of medical staff; destroy larvae and mosquitoes... When there are signs of suspected infection, it is necessary to go to the nearest medical facility for examination and treatment.

Medical units are ready with resources to serve people in need of medical examination and treatment during rain and storms.

Previously, the Hanoi Department of Health issued an urgent dispatch requesting the Directors of medical units; medical stations of wards and communes in the city to closely monitor the developments of storm No. 3 on the mass media, proactively and promptly respond to all developments of rain and storm; ensure absolute safety for patients, medical staff, medicines, supplies and equipment; proactively review and inspect facilities; prepare human resources, supplies, medicines and chemicals for flood and storm prevention, search and rescue.

At the same time, perform well the duty of being on duty, being on duty 24/24 hours, being ready to receive and provide emergency aid to victims affected by rain and storms; mobile emergency teams are always ready to respond when ordered.

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