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| A customs staff check body temperatures of people at a border check point. (Photo: VNA) |
Ministry promulgates action plan to prevent A/H7N9 avian flu
The Ministry of Health has promulgated an action plan to prevent A/H7N9 avian flu outbreaks in Vietnam, with the focus placed on early detection, timely treatment and limiting death toll. The plan sets out four scenarios as well as suitable actions for relevant agencies to promptly deploy.
The ministry also publicised a list of measures to tackle the disease, including improving diagnosis capacity and food safety, organising drills for health staff, and raising public awareness through communications campaigns. It recommended people to not use poultry or poultry products with unknown origins, and ensure food hygiene.People should come to healthcare establishments for check-up and treatment if they have flu-like symptoms, such as fever, cough, chest pain or breathing difficulty, the ministry said. Responding the MoH's action plan to prevent A/H7N9 avian flu outbreaks in Vietnam, the southern province of Dong Nai, which houses Vietnam's largest poultry population of 18 million birds, has been taking precautionary measures against avian flu. The province is also among 13 localities that have detected A/H5N1 avian flu virus strain.
Another strain of the virus, A/H7N9, has yet to be found in the country, however, the long borderline shared with China and busy cross-border trade activities between the two countries are posing a high risk of virus transmissions into Vietnam. According to head of the Dong Nai Preventive Medicine Department Bach Thai Binh, communications campaigns to raise public awareness of the diseases have been intensifying across the province. Farmers have been recommended to vaccinate their poultry, monitor the animals' health, and avoid selling dead and sick poultry to the market. The local health agency has also fully prepared medical equipment and human resources to promptly deal with any emerging outbreaks of the diseases.  | Illustrative image (Source: VNA) |
Vietnam has yet to detect any A/H7N9 patient, however, the long borderline shared with China and busy cross-border trade activities between the two countries are posing a high risk of virus transmissions into Vietnam.
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