Dong Nai is determined not to let infectious diseases break out

Focusing on leading the prevention and control of dengue fever, hand, foot and mouth disease, Covid-19... are the goals set by the Party Committee of the Department of Health of Dong Nai province.

On the afternoon of July 8, the Party Committee of Dong Nai Department of Health held a conference to summarize Party building work in the first 6 months of the year and deploy tasks in the last 6 months of 2024. Attending the conference was comrade Le Quang Trung - Secretary Party Committee of the Department of Health and all party members of the Party Committee of the Department of Health.

Reporting at the preliminary conference, comrade Luu Van Dung, Member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of the Department of Health, said that in the first 6 months of 2024, the Party Committee and Board of Directors of the Department of Health will focus on leading and directing public works. prevention and control of dengue fever, hand, foot and mouth disease, Covid-19 and other diseases.

Strengthen the prevention and control of rabies, diphtheria, and monkeypox, focusing on medical examination and treatment and ensuring food safety and hygiene. Implement well and synchronously from the provincial level to the grassroots level programs, projects and campaigns on Population - Family Planning work.

Thanks to that, many proposed results were achieved such as: the ratio of doctors/10,000 people reached 9.6; 100% of commune, ward and town health stations have doctors working; Natural population growth rate maintained at 0.70%; Prenatal screening rate reached 75%, newborn screening rate reached 81.57%...

Dengue fever recorded 1,169 cases, down 33.45% over the same period in 2023. The Covid-19 epidemic continued to be well controlled in the area, recording 58 cases, down 97.69%. Maintain activities to prevent and control other diseases such as malaria, influenza, cholera, typhoid...

Strengthen administrative reform and application of information technology in performing public duties of units. In the first 6 months of the year, the number of documents received on Egov one-stop software was 3,647, 3,127 were resolved, the rate of documents resolved before and on time was 97.15%, the level of satisfaction of business people for the Department of Health reached 96.3%...

Implement solutions to attract people to participate in health insurance such as: improving the quality of medical examination and treatment and service attitude; Invest in facilities and equipment... communicate about the benefits of medical examination and treatment under health insurance. Implement well the bidding work for purchasing drugs, medical supplies, and chemicals, thereby promptly serving disease prevention and treatment for the people.

Besides the achieved results, there are still some limitations such as: the situation of hand, foot and mouth disease tends to increase; Diseases, rabies and monkeypox are unpredictable; There is still a shortage of vaccines in Expanded Immunization (5-in-1 vaccine, polio injection), the risk of infectious disease epidemics related to Expanded Immunization vaccines may occur.

The food poisoning situation is still complicated. In the first 6 months of 2024, there were 3 cases of food poisoning, with 657 people infected, including 1 case that did not survive (increased compared to the same period in 2023). . The application of information technology is not highly effective, there is no data synchronization between software, there are limitations in data extraction...

Regarding the mission direction for the last 6 months of the year, the Party Committee of the Department of Health proposed key tasks such as: focusing on leading the prevention and control of dengue fever, hand, foot and mouth disease, Covid-19; Strengthen the prevention and control of infectious diseases in Expanded Immunization such as measles, diphtheria, pertussis, Japanese encephalitis... Strengthen the prevention and control of HIV and medical quarantine at Long Thanh International Airport .

Improve the quality of medical examination and treatment, ensure food safety and hygiene. Maintain effective implementation of population policy - family planning... Develop plans and effectively implement Directive No. 25-CT/TW dated October 25, 2023 of the Secretariat on continuing Continue to consolidate, perfect and improve the quality of grassroots healthcare operations in the new situation.

Speaking at the Conference, Mr. Le Quang Trung - Secretary of the Party Committee of the Department of Health said that in the first 6 months of the year, the Party Committee of the Department of Health has focused on implementing and successfully completing the set tasks.

In the last 6 months of 2024, it is necessary to focus on a number of key contents such as: focusing on overcoming limitations in the first 6 months of the year, strengthening disease prevention and control, preventing disease outbreaks; Strengthen digital transformation and administrative reform; Ensure adequate supply of drugs and chemicals to meet people's medical examination and treatment needs.

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