Saturday, August 15, 2009

Vietnam: 63 more cases of H1N1

- The 14 / 8, Nguyen Huy Nga, Director Department of Department of Health and Environment (Ministry of Health) said up to this time, Vietnam had 63 more cases with positive influenza A (H1N1 ). Thus, up to 17h on 14 / 8, Vietnam has recorded 1,363 cases of influenza A/H1N1 positive, with 2 deaths.

In the 63 influenza A/H1N1 infection was detected on 14 / 8, South 40 cases, and the North Highlands area every 10 cases, 2 in the Central case.
Number of patients was the hospital in 1024 of which 339 cases are currently being re-isolation, treatment at hospitals, treatment facilities, monitoring community health status is stable.

To cope with the risk of disease spreading to the community, the Ministry of Health has issued guidelines setting the hospital applied to all local outbreaks. Accordingly, the hospital level 1 is set when at least 20 patients with influenza A/H1N1 in schools, factories, enterprises, offices and facilities in the Middle East. But the hospital level 2 will be established when the number of infected adults, influenza virus capable of variation, with risk of death, some cases have serious complication to hospitalization caused overload condition .

Previous events of A/H1N1 flu spread rapidly in the community, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan requested the Ministry of Health continue to speed and guide the ministries, agencies Ministries, Governmental agencies and Commission staff the provinces and cities directly under the central government to strengthen further the flu A/H1N1, building report on flu A/H1N1 of local and from the public and to date, sent to the Ministry of Health to general reports of the Prime Minister before 25/8/2009.
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