When medical facilities receive a severe dengue patient in a critical and life-threatening condition, they must activate the red alert procedure for in-hospital or inter-hospital dengue patients to give immediate treatment for patients.
Children infected with dengue fever in HCM City
The procedure for an in-hospital or inter-hospital red alert for patients is activated when a dengue patient stops breathing suddenly, their heart stops beating, and severe patients with respiratory failure; moreover, patients with severe dengue including shock, or severe organ failure do not respond to intensive resuscitation treatment or exceed treatment capacity but cannot be safely transferred to hospital, a hospital also needs to adopt the red alert procedure.
According to the city’s Centre for Disease Control, between January and October 9 this year, the city recorded nearly 64,500 dengue fever patients, up 627.6 percent on-year, with adults accounting for 75 percent of the figure. Among those, 1,421 were serious cases, up 3.6 times on-year.
The disease killed 26 people in the city during the period.
The HCM City Centre for Disease Control noted that being hospitalised late is among the major causes of worsened conditions for dengue patients. This has also raised the risk of fatality.
People with symptoms that indicate possible dengue fever infection should immediately go to medical facilities.