Vietnam: MOH Sets Two Levels For Hospitals, Military & Police Get Flu

13/08/2009
A/H1N1 flu spread to the military and police
According to the Steering Committee countries to prevent pandemic flu, the current number of infected influenza A/H1N1 in Vietnam has approximately 1,300 cases with 2 deaths. Recently, Department of Military Health, Ministry of Defense said a number of soldiers and students of the 3 units at Son Tay, Dong Nai and Hanoi infected with influenza A/H1N1.


However, under the Department of Health, Ministry of Public Security, up to this time had 12 officers, soldiers and police units in 6-infected influenza A/H1N1.

To cope with the situation and continue to spread, the Ministry of Health has issued guidelines setting hospital for prevention of pandemic influenza to the local in the country. Dr. Ly Ngoc Kinh, Director Department of Management Department of treatment, the Ministry of Health for setting up the hospital to limit the spread of flu in the community and implementing the collection, isolation, treatment in place avoid overload for hospitals in the province.

Accordingly, depending on the specific disease, there are 2 types of hospital is the hospital level is set if flu occurs in schools, factories, enterprises, offices and basis of the Middle East, the health sector in coordination with the implementation of that.
The hospital level II is when people have big, influenza virus capable of variation, with risk of death, some cases have serious complication to hospitalization caused overload situation. Establishing the hospital level II requires the participation of the sector concerned, including the military and the medical role leading.

Related to drug treatment Tamiflu influenza A/H1N1, Dr. Truong Quoc Cuong, Director Department of Management Department of Pharmacy, said Vietnam, in addition pharmacopoeia currently, over 9 million members, the pharmaceutical company also has Vimedimex enter additional 20,000 doses of Tamiflu to people completely assured Vietnam does not lack drug Tamiflu in the treatment.

The report of the Center and for disease control in Europe, up to this morning, 13-8, in the whole world has recorded 215,090 cases positive for influenza A/H1N1 in 168 countries and territories, including 1735 cases of death. In Southeast Asia, the disease continues to place complex, the number of new cases increased rapidly, many countries have recorded patients infected with influenza A/H1N1 death.