Thứ Bảy, 07/07/2018, 20:04 (GMT+7)
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A large number of children admitted to hospital because of climate change

ABO - Every day, hundreds of children are admitted to hospital in the Pediatric department of the Tien Giang General Hospital with respiratory disease, diarrhea, dengue fever, hand-foot-and-mouth disease. This led to an increase in the number of inpatients in comparison with the same period.

Photo: thtg.vn
Photo: thtg.vn

According to the Tien Giang Preventive Medicine Center to the end of June, the Tien Giang province had 230 cases of hand-foot-and-mouth disease, 510 cases of dengue fever.

At present, hot weather and more rain is a condition for some types of bacteria, viruses to complicatedly change and some new viruses appear. So, every family needs to pay attention to active measures to prevent diseases related to weather. It is necessary to strengthen measures to care and protect children from risk factors, including dengue fever.

(According to thtg.vn – Translated by H.TAM)

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