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Hospitals urged to improve dengue fever treatment

The Health Ministry has called on central hospitals and provincial health departments to organise training courses on dengue fever diagnosis and treatment at both private and public health centres.
Hospitals urged to improve dengue fever treatment ảnh 1A dengue fever patient is being treated at Da Nang Hospital for Women and Children (Source: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – TheMedical Examination and Treatment Management Department under the Ministry ofHealth has called on centrally-run hospitals and provincial health departments toorganise training courses on dengue fever diagnosis and treatment at bothprivate and public health centres. 

The move aims to improve thequality of dengue fever treatment and reduce the rate of dengue-related deaths,director of the department Luong Ngoc Khue said on June 19. 

The department requiredrelevant units to maintain and consolidate the operation of the Dengue FeverTreatment Group as well as hotlines at healthcare clinics.

[Localities strengthen prevention of dengue fever, Zika virus]

The National Hospital of Tropical Diseases, theNational Hospital of Pediatrics, the Hue General Hospital, the Ho Chi Minh CityHospital of Tropical Diseases and the Pediatrics Hospitals 1 and 2 in Ho ChiMinh City were asked to prepare all necessary equipment, medicines and manpowerfor the admission and treatment of dengue fever patients.

The centrally-run hospitalswere also tasked to help lower-level hospitals with training, especially indiagnosing and treating complex dengue fever cases. 

According to the Health Ministry, by June 4,2017, Vietnam reported 36,437 cases of dengue fever in 47 cities and provinces,of whom 10 patients died, as compared with 36,224 cases and ten deaths in thesame period last year.-VNA
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