The Ministry of Health has required localities to instruct hospitals to ensure enough medicine supply for medical check-up and treatment activities on the Lunar New Year.
Hospitals and medical centres have been asked for medicines to address flu, foot, hand and mouth, dengue fever and measles outbreak in the spring.
Hospitals are also required to assign staff to sell medicines round the clock.
Local Departments of Health need to co-operate with management agencies to tighten control over the medicine quality to prevent substandard and fake products.
Where hospitals have shortages of medicines; they need to inform the Ministry of Health to seek help.
Under the Ministry of Health's instructions, all hospitals at both central and local levels in Hanoi have carefully prepared for emergencies during Tet.
Medical staff at the hospitals will work shifts so that hospitals have staff on duty 24 hours daily. Medicine and medical equipment are also ready to serve patients during the Tet holiday.
All the hospitals require hospital hotline and ministry’s hotlines.
Members of the public can contact the ministry’s hotline 1900.9095 if they face problems with medical treatment.
The ministry also asked all hospitals to make plans to deal with emergencies, such as mass food poisonings and traffic accidents.
