Laos' Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh has urged health agencies and officials nationwide to make their efforts to fight against dengue fever, Lao newspaper Vientiane Times reported Thursday.
Under an order on increasing prevention activities against dengue fever issued recently by Prime Minister Bouphavanh, the country's Ministry of Public Health should be the main coordinating and monitoring body.
It will encourage health authorities and officials at all levels throughout the country to prevent and control the virus effectively, distribute the national policy on fighting dengue fever, which includes building a strategy and work plan suitable for implementation at the community level.
The prime minister advised the ministry to monitor, take precautions and continuously report on the spread of the disease, and to organize mobile teams carrying medicines and supplies to work with local health staff at the grass-roots level. Health officials were also asked to raise public awareness on the dangers of dengue fever and how to prevent the disease.
The government also asked ministries and relevant organizations to check local conditions to ensure there are no areas of stagnant water, a common breeding ground for dengue mosquitoes. Communities should clean their areas weekly to prevent mosquitoes from breeding.
Dengue fever has infected 2,186 persons and killed four around the country in the first seven months of this year. The Lao government believed that the infection rate was high, and could become a serious epidemic if health officials do not take effective measures to control the disease, the paper said.
Source: Xinhua
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