On March 18, according to information from the report of Phu Quoc Medical Center (An Giang), the patient is T.H. N. Y. (11 years old, residing in Phu Quoc special zone, An Giang) who is in 5th grade at a primary school in Duong Dong. At about 10 am on March 16, Y was admitted to Phu Quoc Medical Center in a state of fever, rash all over the body accompanied by cyanosis and shortness of breath.
After being admitted to the hospital, it was performed by doctors and nurses of Phu Quoc Medical Center according to the prescribed protocol of the Ministry of Health, but because the disease progressed too quickly and the patient's admission time was late, even though he tried, the patient still did not survive.
Initial diagnosis, the patient had unexplained septic shock, and meningococcal meningitis was monitored.
After the incident occurred, Phu Quoc Health Center coordinated with Duong Dong Health Station to verify and trace the subjects in close contact, the boarding house has 40 rooms with about 34 people. Close contact families include younger brother, father, mother, grandparents. The school has 36 students and a female teacher in the same class. All close contacts are listed for monitoring.
Initially, Phu Quoc Health Center continues to monitor all cases of close contact with self-monitoring health cases under the supervision of Duong Dong Health Station (monitoring period from 7 - 10 days). Guide parents to take care of children if there are severe signs (fever, fatigue, lethargy...) to take children to the hospital for examination. Especially for children to clean their nose and throat daily with physiological saline, wear masks, keep the house and workplace clean and ventilated.
Make a list of all cases in contact with the case for monitoring, coordinate with the school to notify all students to wear masks, use individual bottled drinking water for each student, wash their hands regularly, especially when going to school and when leaving. Recommend parents to take children for meningococcal vaccination or booster vaccination to prevent the disease (the sooner the better). Especially cases in contact with the case. Notify health stations to review and monitor the developments of meningococcal disease in localities, especially in schools to have handling solutions. The school continues to monitor children in close contact with the case, classmates with symptoms of fever, fatigue, rash need to be taken to medical facilities for examination and treatment as soon as possible.
In addition, Phu Quoc Medical Center also took samples to send to An Giang Provincial Center for Disease Control to send to Pasteur Institute for testing whether the deceased student had meningococcal meningitis or not.
Phu Quoc Special Zone People's Committee has also issued a document requesting to strengthen the prevention and control of meningococcal meningitis in the special zone.
