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NHFPC makes hand-foot-and-mouth disease prevention and treatment deployment

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Updated: 2014-06-25

The National Health and Family Planning Commission held a hand-foot-and-mouth disease prevention and treatment video conference on May 6. Officials from the National Patriotic Health Campaign Committee and the Medical Affairs Management Bureau, as well as experts from the Chinese Center for Disease Prevention and Control and the national hand-foot-and-mouth disease clinical expert team, were present at the main meeting venue. Health and family planning commissions at provinces (districts or cities) attended the meeting at the branch venues.

The meeting pointed out that hand-foot-and-mouth disease is in season and will continue to occur at a high rate, posing a serious challenge to prevention and control work.

It asked all regions to fully be aware of the epidemic situation, strengthen prevention and control management, and give priority to contain the spread of disease. The conference also called to strengthen the epidemic monitoring report, epidemic control in key areas, and health education and risk communication efforts to reduce disease attacks. All regions were urged to continue properly conducting diagnosis and treatment, giving centralized treatment to critical cases, and containing hospital infections to bring down the fatality rate.

All regions were urged to carefully implement the meeting spirit, and formulate practical promotional measures based on the NHFPC’s notice on major infectious disease prevention and control in spring and summer on April 4. They were also urged to improve coordination and linkage mechanisms among departments, regions and medical and health care institutes, as well as strengthen prevention and treatment integration. At the same time, the meeting stressed that all parties should establish and improve the supervision and inspection system, clarify inspection content and standards, regularly carry out supervision and inspection of hand-foot-and-mouth disease prevention and treatment work, and find out and solve problems in time to ensure all prevention and control measures are implemented.

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