Strengthening prevention and treatment of acute diarrhea

The Ministry of Health has just issued a document requesting health departments of provinces, cities, hospitals and institutes with beds to strengthen prevention, control and treatment of acute diarrhea at medical examination and treatment facilities.

The Ministry of Health has just issued a document requesting health departments of provinces, cities, hospitals and institutes with beds to strengthen prevention, control and treatment of acute diarrhea at medical examination and treatment facilities.

According to information from the Ministry of Health, a report from the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health shows that there have been a number of cases of acute diarrhea that have required admission to Children's Hospital 1 and the Ho Chi Minh City Hospital for Tropical Diseases; including a 10-month-old child in a state of sepsis, exhaustion and death.

The Ministry of Health promptly directed the Department of Preventive Medicine, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health, and the Ho Chi Minh City Pasteur Institute to urgently implement zoning, actively carry out disease prevention and control measures, investigate and collect samples to find the cause of the disease, manage patients; control the development of acute diarrhea and minimize the mortality rate.

To proactively prevent, control and effectively treat acute diarrhea, and minimize mortality rates, the Ministry of Health requires the above units to ensure adequate clean water sources for daily life, and hygienic conditions for patients and their families such as toilets, hand soap, hand washing areas... at medical examination and treatment facilities.

Medical facilities need to strengthen education, inspection and supervision of food and beverage hygiene in medical examination and treatment facilities; coordinate with preventive medicine units, food safety and hygiene and other local functional units to control food hygiene so that patients and their families can eat and drink hygienically.

The above units need to reserve sufficient quantities of emergency medicines, treatment drugs, infusion fluids and necessary medical equipment to be ready to provide emergency care and treatment for acute diarrhea.

In addition, medical examination and treatment facilities must organize well the reception, admission, diagnosis, classification, isolation, treatment, timely emergency care, and transfer of acute diarrhea cases to the right facility; prepare emergency and anti-epidemic teams to provide emergency care and timely transport of severe cases when required.

Regarding treatment, the Minister of Health requested that the above units need to organize retraining for doctors, nurses, and technicians in relevant departments, offices, and units on the guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of acute diarrhea caused by various causes that have been issued by the Ministry of Health.

According to Vietnam+