Swine flu ah1n1

A patient infected with the AH1N1 influenza virus being treated at HCM City’s Cho Ray hospital (Photo: news.zing.vn) HCM City (VNA) - A patient with end-stage kidney failure has died of swine flu at Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, the hospital reported on June 23. He was one of 12 patients who had tested positive for the A/H1N1 influenza virus at the hospital recently. Le Quoc Hung, head of the hospital’s department of tropical diseases, said five of the patients in the department of nephrology had been diagnosed with swine flu on June 11 and the rest in the next few days. The infected patients were isolated, Hung added. This is the first time the hospital is treating such a large number of swine-flu patients, he said. Nguyen Truong Son, director of the hospital, said the infected patients have been placed under special supervision. The hospital is also closely monitoring the health condition of the personnel at the department of tropical diseases and … [Read more...] about One patient dies of swine flu at Cho Ray Hospital

This observation is to minimize the cross infection among patients as well as healthcare workers in the hospital. The task of timely treating infected people to control this outbreak should be prioritized. Everything must be done to avoid more infection into the community. Simultaneously, the HCMC Department of Health is cooperating with relevant bodies and the People’s Committee of all districts to carry out the task of preventing similar outbreaks of swine flu types A (H1N1), (H7N9), (H5N1) and other respiratory diseases. The HCMC Department of Information and Communications collaborate with the Department of Health to direct state media offices to promote knowledge on how people protect themselves from epidemic diseases in general and swine flu in particular. All delivered information must be precise in order not to make residents panic. The HCMC Department of Finance must have a clear plan to supply budget for the task of preventing epidemic disease so that the Department of … [Read more...] about Swine flu A/H1N1 closely observed in Tu Du Hospital

At the moment, there are only 5 patients under monitoring in the Laparoscopy Department, one of whom shows no signal of high fever and the other four have no symptoms of influenza. In the last two days, Tu Du Hospital disinfected all the contact surfaces area of the fifth floor in block M, where the outbreak of swine flu happened. The building has also been sprayed in a rolling manner. It was not allowed to welcome patients anymore. “Basically, the outbreak is under control now. Therefore, from 12pm June 4, we began to receive patients into the Laparoscopy Department again”, confirmed Doctor Nguyen Ba My Nhi. She also shared that influenza A/H1N1 is a mild seasonal flu with typical symptoms of high fever, coughing, headache, muscle pain, sore throat, and running nose. Most infected people can recover from this disease by themselves in a week without special treatment. However, a minor number of them might develop more serious symptoms, which leads to fatality, especially … [Read more...] about Outbreak of swine flu A/H1N1 in HCMC basically eliminated