Recommended prevention of flood season

The Northern mountainous provinces, Central coastal region are in serious flooding situation, the disease in the flood season is easy to break out.

According to the Department of Preventive Medicine, the Ministry of Health, during and after storms, floods, countless microorganisms, dust, garbage, wastes, etc., follow many water flows, causing environmental and potential pollution. muscle disease. Common epidemics in the rainy season include dengue fever, malaria, gastrointestinal diseases such as cholera, dysentery, typhoid, diarrhea, foot and mouth disease, flu, red eye .

People in suburban districts of Hanoi travel by boat.(Photo: Hoang Phuong).

1. Therefore, the Preventive Medicine Department recommends that people implement the following epidemic prevention measures:
2. Ensure food selection and processing of safe, hygienic food, cooked food and boiled water.
3. Wash your hands often with soap before and after handling food, before eating and after using the toilet.
4. Daily personal hygiene, clean your feet and dry your toes after contact with floodwater, contaminated water.
5. Destroy stubborn stings / bugs, kill mosquitoes by covering tanks, water containers, stocking fish into large water containers, removing waste such as bottles, jars, car tires . or natural water holes so as not to give mosquitoes lay eggs.
6. Blinds when sleeping even during the day.
7. Clean water tanks, wells, and water containers. Use chemicals to disinfect drinking water and activities according to the instructions of medical staff.
8. Implementing the principle of sprinting to where to clean, collect, treat and bury animal carcasses under the guidance of medical staff.
9. When there are signs of suspected infection, it is necessary to seek medical treatment at the nearest medical facility.

Hanoi Department of Health also suggested medical facilities to set up a mobile team to prevent epidemics, prepare the necessary number of medicines, and send officials to flood areas to support sanitation and disease prevention. The medical sector also strengthens the inspection and supervision of food production and business establishments, ensuring that no livestock, poultry and aquatic products are infected, dead or unidentified for food processing.