Vietnam’s
Health Ministry is training medical workers, and outfitting hospitals to
serve as the front line in a possible fight against the Ebola virus, an
official said.
Though no cases of the virus have
been reported in Vietnam,
the ministry has started offering trainings on treatment regimens to
healthcare workers at facilities throughout the country, Tran Dac Phu,
head of the Preventive Health Department at the ministry, said at a meeting
on Friday, Tuoi Tre newspaper reported.
The paper quoted Phu as saying that
all hospitals assigned to receive Ebola patients have received adequate
protective equipment for their staff.
Vietnam started
ramping up its Ebola defenses after hearing of complicated developments in
the deadly hemorrhagic fever worldwide, officials said at a meeting attended
by deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam.
There have been around 1,000 new
cases every week for the past four weeks, according to global reports. More
than 4,000, or 70 percent of the infected cases have resulted in fatalities.
Collecting medical declaration forms
from international arrivals and measuring body temperatures at airports
remains Vietnam’s
primary strategy for catching any infected persons before they are introduced
to the general population.
A ministry report at the meeting
listed 270 arrivals from West Africa to Vietnam
in the past two months (most of them Nigerians) through Tan
Son Nhat
Airport in Ho Chi Minh City.
Almost none have come from the
hardest hit New Guinea, Liberia and Sierra
Leone--or the two other afflicted countries Congo and Senegal, the report said.
Vietnam has few
labor and commercial relations with those countries, it noted.
Travelers disembarking from the US
and Spain, where two health workers were struck by the virus after caring for
Ebola patients this month, do not have to present health certificates in
Vietnam, yet.
The infections were the first
recorded outside Africa and have raised
questions about whether there was a lapse in disease control protocols.
Ebola is transmitted through direct
contact with the blood, bodily fluids and tissue of infected animals or
people.
Experts from the World Health
Organization and the US’s Centers of Disease Prevention and Control said
they'e seen no evidence to confirm fears that the disease has become
airborne.
Thanh Nien News
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