Ministry of Health calls on people to proactively prevent disease

Thùy Linh |

The Ministry of Health calls on all people to raise awareness of disease prevention and proactively protect the health of themselves, their families, and society.

On the morning of December 26, the Ministry of Health held a conference to review the work of preventing and controlling infectious diseases in 2024 and the plan for preventing and controlling infectious diseases in 2025 in response to the International Day for Epidemic Prevention and Control (December 27) in 2024.

Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Lien Huong emphasized: “COVID-19 is a wake-up call for the whole world; the healthcare system is pushed to its limits; the economy is severely affected, social security and welfare are not guaranteed, and people's lives are disrupted. The temporary crisis has passed, but the lessons learned are still there.

On the occasion of the International Day for Epidemic Prevention and Control in 2024, the Ministry of Health calls on all people to raise awareness of personal disease prevention, proactively protect the health of themselves, their families and society, and requests all levels and sectors to continue to coordinate with the health sector, mobilize the participation of political organizations, unions, social communities and international friends in the work of preventing and controlling infectious diseases to proactively prevent diseases early and from a distance, limit the spread and outbreak of diseases, ensure social security and contribute to promoting socio-economic development.

At the conference, Mr. Nguyen Luong Tam - Deputy Director of the Department of Preventive Medicine, Ministry of Health - said: With diverse transmission methods and forms, pathogens constantly changing, infectious diseases in general always have unpredictable developments and are difficult to predict.

The context of increasing globalization, environmental pollution, climate change, natural disasters, floods, urbanization and increased migration has increased disease outbreaks and the risk of pandemics is always present.

In 2024, outbreaks of measles, cholera, polio, Marburg... still occur in many countries and regions around the world, warning that infectious diseases are always a present danger to every country.

In Vietnam, in 2024, the situation of infectious diseases nationwide will be basically controlled; circulating infectious diseases such as dengue fever, hand, foot and mouth disease, and malaria will decrease sharply compared to 2023; no cases of dangerous group A diseases (Ebola, MERS-CoV, influenza A/H7N9) will be recorded entering Vietnam.

In 2024, the largest storm ever, Yagi, occurred, causing many serious consequences. However, disease prevention and control work was well prepared and proactive, so infectious diseases that often occur after natural disasters and floods were well controlled, preventing major outbreaks in affected areas.

However, in 2024, nationwide, some infectious diseases have increased in number such as measles, whooping cough, rabies, some diseases such as dengue fever, diphtheria have increased locally in some localities.

In 2024, the largest storm ever, Yagi, occurred, causing many serious consequences. However, disease prevention and control work was well prepared and proactive, so infectious diseases that often occur after natural disasters and floods were well controlled, preventing major outbreaks in affected areas.

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