More medicines for hand, foot and mouth disease treatment have been imported into Vietnam, helping ease the shortage at many local hospitals.
According to the Drug Administration of Vietnam, the Central Pharmaceutical Company 1 JS Company has planned to import 3,000 additional Globulin bottles.
Many hospitals in HCM City are facing shortages of medicines for hand, foot and mouth disease. Photo by D.Trang
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The Central Pharmaceutical Company 1 JS Company has also been licensed to import Phenobarbital tubes. A batch of around 21,000 tubes has been imported into Vietnam.
Medical facilities have been asked to contact medicine importers for the medicine supply to meet the hand, foot and mouth disease treatment.
So far this year, Vietnam has recorded 34,847 hand, foot and mouth cases, including 15 deaths. The number of patients dropped by 9.7 percent on-year, however, the number of deaths increased by 12.
The Enterovirus Virus has been identified as the main cause of the disease in the city.