Notice on prevention and control of major spring and summer infectious diseases

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Updated: 2014-06-09

3. Earnestly do diagnostic report and treatment work

The medical and healthcare institutions at various levels should strictly implement the infectious disease preview and triage system in accordance with relevant law provisions on the prevention and control of infectious diseases, carefully make registration reports on infectious diseases and enhance the control of hospital infectious, strengthen disease diagnosis and treatment, and strengthen skills of medical staff (especially those at the primary care level) in recognizing symptoms of major infectious disease, such as Ebola hemorrhagic fevers and fevers with thrombocytopenia syndrome. When receiving patients with symptoms such as fever and hemorrhage, medical staff should pay attention to epidemiology history to find and report suspicious cases in time. In areas where there are a high numbers of severe cases of HFMD, medical staff at the grassroots level should be trained for diagnosing the disease and offering timely transfer treatment to maximize recovery.

4. Vigorously carry out patriotic health campaign

All regions should strengthen vector prevention and control work on the basis of the monthly themed patriotic health activities; carry out national urban and rural environmental sanitation actions; intensify environmental health regulations; promptly eliminate sanitation blind spots; remove garbage and sewage pits; eliminate mosquito breeding sites; renovate rural toilets; conduct treatment of feces; take care of sanitation in the family, the community, primary and secondary schools, and childcare facilities; and cut off transmission routes for infectious diseases such as cholera, HFMD, dengue and other insect-borne diseases.

5. Strengthen health education and risk communication

Health and family planning administrative departments at various levels should focus on prevention and control of infectious diseases in spring and summer as an important part of the health literacy promotion project; publicize health knowledge on major infectious diseases in spring and summer; help the public, especially the rural people develop good health habits; and improve self-protection awareness and abilities. The departments should issue timely, accurate and objective information on disease prevention and control, enhance collection and respond to public opinion, and clarify false rumors in time to maintain social stability.

Health and family planning administrative departments at various levels should clarify regional, departmental, unit and individual responsibilities in key infectious disease prevention and control work in spring and summer, and carry out evaluations on prevention and control in time to ensure all work is well implemented and yields actual benefits. The National Health and Family Planning Commission will conduct on-site supervision and guidance on prevention and control work at major districts at an appropriate time, acquire good experience and practices, and criticize slack prevention and control work that results in the spread of diseases.

General Office, National Health and Family Planning Commission

April 4, 2014