Strengthening measures to prevent and control diseases, improve environmental hygiene, and ensure food safety after heavy rains and flooding in Nghe An.

The Nghe An Department of Health has issued Official Letter No. 3149/SYT-NVY regarding the implementation of measures to prevent and control diseases, ensure environmental hygiene, food safety, and maintain medical examination and treatment services after floods and inundation, addressed to the Provincial Center for Disease Control, Health Centers, and public and private medical facilities in the province.

The official document states: Due to the aftermath of typhoon No. 3, the western region of Nghe An province has experienced flooding and landslides, especially in communes belonging to Ky Son district.Tuong DuongCon Cuong (formerly). Many areas were deeply flooded, with some places submerged up to the rooftops; many villages were isolated due to rising river levels and inter-village and inter-commune roads were flooded or damaged by landslides.

To promptly implement prevention and control measures.pandemicTo address environmental sanitation, food safety, and ensure medical examination and treatment after floods and inundation, the Department of Health requests that units proactively review and identify key areas at high risk of disease outbreaks after floods and inundation; prepare contingency plans for any emerging situations; and strengthen mobile disease prevention and control teams to support lower-level units in monitoring, early detection, and timely treatment of infectious diseases that may increase during and after floods.

Immediately deploy personnel and ensure sufficient medicines, chemicals, equipment, and supplies are available to implement disease prevention and control measures in affected localities; organize environmental sanitation according to the principle of "cleaning as the water recedes," treat the environment, collect and bury animal carcasses according to guidelines, and use lime and disinfectants to prevent the risk of disease outbreaks; urgently organize insecticide spraying in high-risk areas.

Organize direct communication within the community and through mass media, providing specific guidance to people on disease risks, clean water treatment methods, food safety and hygiene, and ways to prevent common diseases during and after floods such as diarrhea, conjunctivitis, skin diseases, dengue fever, etc.

Strengthen surveillance in affected areas, especially at concentrated evacuation points and isolated areas, to detect early and thoroughly handle outbreaks of diseases such as acute diarrhea, conjunctivitis, acute respiratory infections, skin diseases, influenza, dengue fever, paying particular attention to gastrointestinal diseases such as scabies, dysentery, and typhoid fever...

Public and private medical facilities are urged to promptly review and address any damage caused by the floods, ensuring uninterrupted medical services; and to strictly implement the plan for organizing timely and safe emergency care and treatment for patients as directed in Official Letter No. 3188/SYT-NVY dated July 22, 2025, from the Department of Health.

Strengthen food safety inspections and monitoring in flood-affected areas; instruct people to absolutely avoid consuming food that has been soaked in water, contaminated, spoiled, or of unknown origin; disseminate information on safe food selection, processing, and preservation methods; prepare sufficient medicines, chemicals, and equipment to promptly handle food poisoning incidents, and strictly adhere to the procedures for investigating and reporting food poisoning cases as prescribed.

The Department of Health has assigned the Provincial Center for Disease Control as the standing unit to receive and compile information on disease outbreaks and environmental sanitation from localities; and to be ready to provide technical support, medicines, chemicals, and supplies to localities when needed, especially in situations of widespread disease outbreaks.