Nghe An ensures medical examination and treatment during Lunar New Year

At this time, medical facilities are seriously implementing the direction of the Department of Health on ensuring medical work during the 2024 Lunar New Year holiday.

Dr. Nguyen Huu Le - Deputy Director of Nghe An Department of Health stated: The Department of Health has directed medical examination and treatment facilities to organize 24/7 on-call duty; ensure adequate supplies of medicine, blood, infusion fluids, supplies, chemicals, medical equipment, and medical oxygen; prepare emergency plans for events with large crowds, arrange hospital beds and vehicles, and be ready to respond and serve treatment and emergency work, especially emergency care for traffic accidents, fires, injuries, food poisoning, and treatment of patients with infectious diseases during Tet.

In addition, thoroughly educate medical staff to properly implement hospital rules and regulations; raise service awareness and behavioral culture towards patients and their families when coming for examination and treatment; visit and wish New Year to inpatients, especially those in difficult circumstances, the poor, and those under policy; mobilize and mobilize legal support resources to fully and promptly implement policies and regimes to encourage medical staff during Tet, especially medical staff participating in Tet duty.
Private medical facilities develop plans to coordinate with public medical facilities in the area to participate in implementing medical work to ensure the celebration of the Lunar New Year 2024; prepare necessary conditions to participate in coordinating activities when requested.

The Food Safety Department coordinates with relevant agencies and units to promote propaganda and dissemination of regulations and knowledge on food safety to raise awareness and consciousness of the community in ensuring food safety through various forms and appropriate media; focusing on food consumers, housewives, people who directly choose to buy and process food, food producers and traders; mobilizing the whole society to participate in preventing and combating the production and trading of fake and poor quality food.

Strengthening inter-sectoral inspection and supervisionfood safetyBefore, during and after Tet, focus on product groups consumed a lot during Tet and festivals with high risk factors; promptly detect and strictly handle violations, and at the same time commend organizations, individuals, and addresses producing and trading safe food for the community.

The Department of Health also requested the Provincial Center for Disease Control and the Medical Centers of districts, cities and towns to continue to monitor, supervise, detect early, promptly and thoroughly handle outbreaks of infectious diseases, not allowing them to spread and break out widely in the community; strengthen inspection and monitoring of epidemics at border gates to promptly detect, isolate and promptly handle suspected cases and cases of infectious diseases, not allowing the epidemic to enter and spread; develop a plan to be ready to respond to epidemic situations according to the 4 on-site motto; fully prepare chemicals, equipment, means and human resources to ensure meeting the requirements for disease prevention and control in the area.

Ensure necessary conditions for deploying rapid response teams and necessary means, equipment, chemicals, and medical supplies to be ready to support localities in responding to epidemic situations; coordinate with relevant units to organize communication and disseminate knowledge to units and people in the area on disease prevention and control according to the recommendations of the Ministry of Health, especially infectious diseases, respiratory diseases, and high-risk groups such as children with weak resistance, the elderly, and people with underlying diseases.

At Nghe An General Hospital, Director Nguyen Van Huong said: “Following the direction of the Department of Health, the hospital has developed and issued a plan for medical examination and treatment before, during and after Tet; a plan to mobilize and increase human resources, assign Tet duty, ensuring that all departments have doctors and nurses on duty; a plan to organize emergency care outside the hospital, in the hospital and natural disasters...; at the same time, a plan to provide logistics services for patients staying as well as medical staff on duty during Tet. At this time, the hospital is focusing on bidding for the purchase of basic, advanced, specialized consumables and medicines; coordinating with companies to carry out warranty and repair of equipment... to ensure good supplies, medicines and equipment to serve patients during Tet”./.