The Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee has just issued an urgent dispatch on strengthening the prevention and control of dengue fever, hand, foot and mouth disease, COVID-19 and epidemics during the rainy season in the city.
In an urgent dispatch, the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee noted that the current infectious disease situation in the world continues to develop complicatedly, with many diseases showing an increasing trend in the number of cases in many countries.
The situation of infectious diseases in Ho Chi Minh City is still basically under control. However, to proactively prevent and control the epidemic, the Standing Committee of the City Party Committee requests the Party Committee of the City People's Committee to lead the City People's Committee to direct the Department of Health to continue to closely monitor the epidemic situation in the city, prepare timely response solutions when situations arise; proactively and promptly coordinate with the city's departments, branches, People's Committees of districts and Thu Duc City to urgently and effectively implement sustainable management measures and control dengue fever, hand, foot and mouth disease, COVID-19 and other epidemics during the rainy season.
In particular, there is increased concern for protecting people in high-risk groups (illness and severe progression).
Direct the Departmentof Education and Training to closely coordinate with the Department of Health and relevant units to implement disease prevention and control measures at educational institutions; strengthen propaganda and guidance for students, parents and teachers to implement personal hygiene and environmental sanitation measures; organize inspection and supervision of disease prevention work at schools; proactively implement disease prevention and control measures and coordinate to organize vaccination for students according to the plan and instructions of the health sector, not allowing disease outbreaks in schools.
Departments, branches, agencies and units with the function of strengthening information, propaganda and communication on disease prevention, protecting the health of people, families and the community; at the same time, continue to mobilize people to proactively implement disease prevention and control measures according to the recommendations of the health sector; communicate vaccination for adults and children, especially those in the risk group; direct strict handling of cases with negative information and violations of disease prevention and control regulations in the city.
Party committees, Party organizations, authorities, the Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations at all levels must proactively and urgently disseminate and deploy the entire political system, cadres, party members, union members and association members to seriously implement the requirements, directions and measures to prevent and control dengue fever, hand, foot and mouth disease, COVID-19 and epidemics during the rainy season of the Government, ministries, branches at the central and city levels. In particular, it is necessary to focus on people in risk groups, and communicate and mobilize people to proactively get vaccinated according to the instructions of the health sector.
The City Party Committee's Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Commission presides over and coordinates with the Department of Culture and Sports and the Department of Science and Technology to direct the city's press agencies to focus on propagating and mobilizing people to strictly implement requirements on disease prevention and control, raise awareness in preventing and controlling dengue fever, hand, foot and mouth disease, COVID-19 and diseases during the rainy season; continue to deploy appropriate forms of communication so that people in the city correctly and fully understand the disease situation, potential risks and actively participate in disease prevention and control.
Source: https://ttbc-hcm.gov.vn/tp-hcm-tang-cuong-bao-ve-nhom-nguy-co-cao-truoc-dich-benh-truyen-nhiem-1018887.html
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