Dak Lak records chickenpox outbreak at kindergarten

On October 10, Buon Ho Town Medical Center, Dak Lak province, announced that the unit had just recorded a chickenpox outbreak at Hoa Huong Duong Kindergarten in Thien An ward.

According to the health sector, vaccination is the best solution to prevent chickenpox in children.

Previously, on October 3, at the kindergarten class of Hoa Huong Duong Kindergarten, Thien An Ward, Buon Ho Town, the homeroom teacher discovered a child with blisters on his face and hands. On October 5 and 6, four more children appeared in this class with symptoms of blisters on their face and hands. The teacher suspected that the children had chickenpox, so she contacted their families and sent them home for isolation and treatment. As a result, all the children were diagnosed with chickenpox.

Currently, Hoa Huong Duong Kindergarten has five classes with 114 students. The remaining classes of the school have not recorded similar cases.

Immediately after recording the outbreak, Buon Ho Town Medical Center quickly coordinated with the ward health station and Hoa Huong Duong Kindergarten to disinfect all classrooms and school grounds with 0.5% Cloramin B solution. At the same time, they advised and guided on measures to prevent and control chickenpox at school , clean the school grounds and classrooms. They required schools to improve personal hygiene for children, clean walls and floors, soak learning tools and toys with 0.5% Cloramin B solution.

Strengthen propaganda for people to take measures to prevent and control chickenpox such as limiting contact with sick people to prevent spreading. Cases of chickenpox need to stay home from school for seven to 10 days from the time the disease is detected to avoid spreading to those around them; regularly wear masks, limit contact and gathering in crowds. Students limit going back and forth between classes, can temporarily stop boarding and eating at school to minimize the spread to classes that have not had cases.

Regularly wash hands with soap, use separate household items, clean nose and throat daily with saline solution; clean house, school and household items with common antiseptic solution and vaccinate children from 12 months old against chickenpox.

The leaders of Buon Ho Town Medical Center assessed that the chickenpox epidemic is still complicated because students are boarding students, eating and sleeping at school. In addition, the large number of students, active age, and frequent contact, so the epidemic can spread and spread to the community. Therefore, Buon Ho Town Medical Center is actively implementing disease prevention and control measures as well as promoting propaganda to local people. At the same time, it is recommended that schools closely monitor new cases of the disease. In the next five to seven days, if the number of cases increases by three to five cases per class and 2/3 of the total classes in the whole school have students infected, the whole school will be allowed to take a break from school for seven to 10 days to isolate and clean up the disease prevention and control...

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