Prepare a bird flu hotline

Deputy director of Ho Chi Minh City Health Communication Center Truong Trong Hoang said he has established a hotline (08.9309878) for health advice and advice on bird flu. The line is initially operational during office hours and Sunday afternoon.

"The center will move to" connect "24 hours a day to the peak, but now, more than a dozen people call the hotline every day to ask who to ask about bird flu and give whole person " - Mr. Hoang said.

From mid-September, Ho Chi Minh City has been at the forefront of the country when launching propaganda leaflets "Month to strengthen bird flu prevention", sent to districts and urban groups. Currently the center prepares to print 2 types of leaflets. The first type warns and guides measures to prevent bird flu (expected to be distributed to people at the beginning of next week). The second type has the content suitable for cases of bird flu occurring on people, in case of bad changes, then propagate immediately.

In order to get information about flu "infiltrating" into every household, according to Mr. Hoang, the City Health Communication Center also uses the network of volunteer health communication in the districts and wards. commune.

Chairman of Ben Thanh Ward People's Committee, District 1 Pham Thanh Kien, from the beginning of the month, the ward propagated flu prevention and control to the Executive Board of 6 quarters and 108 residential groups in the ward. Accordingly, a comprehensive inspection of households raising ducks, pigeons, ornamental birds, stone chickens as well as restaurants, hotel restaurants and plans for destruction and treatment of live poultry, poultry and poultry. poultry products not yet quarantined after November 15. A propaganda vehicle was also dispatched by each ward to each area in the ward to inform about measures to prevent influenza epidemic and to propagate for people who do not feed or eat poultry.

Ben Thanh Ward, District 1 has just launched a propaganda campaign on bird flu to the neighborhoods in the area.

In the morning of 11/11, Ben Thanh ward launched a propaganda campaign for people to walk around Tao Dan Park and asked to voluntarily stop raising and bringing birds into the park. This is a place where hundreds of bird cages are brought every day to sing. Mr. Nghia, an avid bird player here said: "The information about my flu is full, but the birds I raise have a price of at least VND 2 million or more. Where is the flu spread (?!) ".

On 11/11, Vice Chairman of HCM City People's Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan, Head of the Steering Committee for Avian Influenza Prevention, said that the city will spend VND 400 million for propaganda in the immediate future.

Phan Anh - Thanh Luong