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PANO - The Department of Preventative Medicine of the Ministry of Health (MoH) held an interdisciplinary workshop to deploy the "Community joins hands to prevent diseases" program on December 14th in Hanoi.

Delivering a report at the event, Truong Dinh Bac, Deputy Head of the department, held that Vietnam is facing high risks of new infectious diseases such as Ebola, MERS-CoV, and Avian influenza A (H7N9), which saw complicated global changes over the past year.

The country has also recorded increasing numbers of new cases and deaths caused by dengue, hand-foot-mouth disease, malaria, encephalitis and rabies every year, he added.

The program aims to gather all ministries, sectors, localities and society as a whole to make joint efforts to prevent infectious diseases for the sake of public health in the country.

During the event, all delegates agreed that public awareness of the importance of personal hygiene, environmental sanitation, food security and disease prevention needs to improve.

Translated by Trung Thanh